Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/318

  uppoed to haue fledde aweye / but the Serpent with his wonder longe taylle enlaced her two hynder legges / And the Serpent thenne beganne to ouke the Cow / And in dede oo moche / and oo longe he buked tylle that he ond omme mylke /   ¶ And whanne the Cowe myght ecape fro hym / he fledde vnto the other kyne /   ¶ And Incontynent her pappes and her behynder legges and all that the Serpent touched was all black a grete pace of tyme   ¶ And oone after the ayd Cowe maade a fayre calf / The whiche merueylle was announced or ayd to the ayd Pope he beynge atte Ferrare /

¶ And yet ageyne oone after that / ther was fond within a grete Ryuer a montre maryn / or of the ee of the forme or lyknee whiche foloweth /

¶ Fyrte he hadde from the nauylle vpward the ymplytude or lykenee of a man / And fro the nauylle dounward / he had the fourme or makynge of a Fyhe / the whiche parte was iumelle that is to wete double /   ¶ Secondly he hadde a grete berd / and he hadde two wonder grete hornys aboue his eres /   ¶ Alo he hadde grete pappes / and a wonder grete and horryble mouthe / and his handes retched unto his entraylles or bowellys / And at the bothe his elbowes he hadde wynges lyght brode and grete