Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/326

   caue one of them demaunded two partes after thexygence of her werke / And that other the half after theyre perones / eche of them hewynge dyuerly theyr reons / that one ayeng that he hadde uffred hym twyes to doo his pleayr / and that other pretended / that he was redy and in her was no defawte   And oo fro wordes they came to trokes and cratchyng with naylys / and drawynge theyr here / in o moche that theyr neyghbours came to this batayll for to departe them / And alo of theyr owne and propre hubondes / not knowynge the caue of theyr tryf and debate / eche of them defendynge his wyues caue / And fro the fyghtynge of the wymmen hit aroos and came to theyr hubondes with buffettis and catynge of tones / oo longe that men ranne bytwene them / And after the cutomme of Rome bothe the hubondes were brought to pryon berynge enemyte eche to other / & knewe no thynge the caue wherfore / The ayd cloth is ette in the handes of the wymen ecretely yet not departed / but is ecretely argued amonge the wymmen in what wye that this mater hal be deuyded / And I demaunde of doctoures what the lawe is of it

¶ He fayeth alo that a marchaunt of Florence bought an hors of a man / and made his couenaunt