Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/322

  yluer / For he knewe wel ynough the condycions of his bihop / & forth with he toke his breuyarye / & an C crownes with hym / the prelate beganne to remembre and to hewe to hym the enormyte of his mydede / And to hym anwerd the preet whiche was ryght wye ayenge in this manere / O my ryght reuerende fader / yf ye knewe the ouerayne prudence of whiche the ayd dogge was fylled / ye hold not be merueylled yf he hath wel deernyd for to be buryed honetly and worhipfully amonge the men / he was al fylled with humayn wytte as wel in his lyf / as in thartycle of the dethe / And thenne the bihop ayd / how may that be / reherce to me thenne al his lyf / Certaynly ryght reuerende fader ye ought wel to knowe that whanne he was atte thartycle and at the poynt of dethe / he wold make his tetament / And the dogge knowyng your grete nede and Indygence / he bequethed to yow an C crownes of gold / the whiche I brynge now vnto yow / And thenne the Bihop for loue of the money he aoylled the pret And alo graunted the ayd epulture / And therfore yluer caueth alle thynge to be graunted or done.