Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/329

 lo he aith that then was a phiycyen dwellyng in a Cyte / whiche was a grete & a connyng man in that cyence / & he had a eruaūt a yong man whiche made pylles after a certayne forme that he hewed to hym / & whan this yong man / had dwellid long with hym / & coude make the pylles / he departed fro his mayter / and went in to traūge countre where as he was knowen / and lete men there to vndertonde that he was a connynge phiycyen / and coude gyue medycynes for al maner maladyes and ekenees / and mynityred alwey his pylles to euery man that came to hym for ony remedy / And hit was oo that a poure man of that place where he was came to hym / and complayned how he had lote his ae / and prayd hym to gyue to hym a medycyne for to fynde his ae ageyne / And he gaf to hym the ayd pylles / & badde hym to receyue and take them / And he hold fynde his ae / And this poure man dyd oo / and after wente in to the feldes and patures to eke and loke after his ae / And oo doynge the pylleys oo in his bely / that he mut nedes go purge hym / and went amonge