Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/330

  amonge the reed and there eayd hym / And anonet here he fonde his ae / wherof he beyng moche Joyeful ranne in to the toune / and told and proclamed / that by the medecyn that he had receyued of the phiycyen he had found his ae / whiche thynge knowen alle the ymple peple reputed hym for a moche connynge man / whiche coude no thynge doo but make pyllyes / And thus many fooles are ofte taken for wye and connynge / For he was reputed to hele all maner ekenees / and alo to fynde aes.

Here was in a certayne towne a wydower wowed a wydowe for to haue and Wedde her to his wyf / And at the lat they were agreed and ured to gyder / ¶ And whan a yonge woman beynge eruaunt with the wydowe herd therof / he came to her maytree / and ayd to her / Allas maytree what haue ye doo / why ayd Ihe / I haue herd ay ayd the mayde / that ye be aured and halle wedde uche a man / And what thenne ayd the wydowe / Allas ayd the mayde I am ory for yow / by caue I haue herd aye that he is a peryllous man / For he laye o ofte and knewe o