Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/324

  talke and communyque emong alle beetes withoute ony harme or dommage / And they halle doo to yow bothe pleayr and alle eruye to them poible / for thus it is concluded and accorded / and alo confermed by the grete counceyll of all betes / And yet they haue made commaundement that none be o hardy to vexe ne lette in no wye ony other / be it neuer oo lytyll a beet / For the whiche good tydynges I praye the / that thow wylt come doune / to thende / that we may goo and ynge / Te deum laudamus / for Joye / And the cok whiche knewe wel the fallaces or falhede of the foxe anuerd to hym in this manere / Certaynly my broder and my good Frend thow hat brought to me ryght good tydynges / wherof more than C tymes I halle thanke the / And ayenge thee wordes the Cock lyfte vp his neck / and his feet / and loked farre fro hym / And the foxe ayd to hym / what godep / where aboute loket thow / And the Cok anuerd to hym / Certaynly my broder I ee two dogges trongly and lyghtly rennynge hytherward with open mouthes / whiche as I uppoe come for to brynge to vs the tydynges whiche thou hat told to vs / And thenne the Foxe whiche hoke for fere of the two dogges ayd to the Cock / god be with you my frend / It is tyme that I departe fro hens / or