Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/313



Oge Florentyn reherceth to vs / how ones he was in a felauhip where men pak of the uperflue cure of them whiche gouerne the dogges and hawkes / wherof a mylannoys named Paulus beganne to lawhe / and lawhyng requyred of Poge that he wold reherce omme fable of the ayd hawkes / And for loue of alle the felauhip he ayd in thys manere / Somtyme was a medecyn whiche was a Mylannoys   This medecyn heled al foles of al maner of foly / and how & in what manere he dyd hele them / I hall telle hit to you   This medycyn or leche had within his hows a grete gardyn   And in the myddes of hit was a depe and a brode pytte / whiche was ful of tynkynge and Infected water / And within the ame pytte the ayd medycyn put the foles after the quantyte of theyr folyhnes / omme vnto the knes / and the other vnto the bely / And there he bonde them fat at a pot / but none he putte depper / than vnto the tomack for double of gretter Inconuenient / It