Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/321



Yluer dothe and caueth alle thynge to be done vnto the halowynge ageyne of a place whiche is prophane or Interdicte / As ye halle mowe here by thys preente Fable / ¶ Of a preet dwellynge in the countrey whiche omtyme had a dogge / whiche he loued moche / the whiche preet was moche ryche / The ayd dogge by procee of tyme deyde / & whan he was dede / he entered and buryed hit in the chirche yerd for caue of the grete loue whiche he loued hym / it happed thenne on a day his bihop knewe hit by thaduertyement of omme other / wherfore he ente for the ayd preet / and upoed to haue of hym a grete omme of gold / or els he hold make hym to be traytly punyhed/ And thenne he wrote a lettre vnto the ayd preet of whiche the tenour conteyned only that he hold come and peke with hym / And whan the pret had redde the lettres / he vndertood alle the caas / and preuppoed or bethought in his courage / that he wold haue of hym omme