Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/332

  omtyme his felawe / whiche cam and welcomed hym lowely / And that other badde hym good morowe mayter Johan / and toke hym leyghtly by the hand / and axyd hym where he dwellyd / And the good man ayd in this paryh / how ayd he / are ye here a owle preet or a paryh prete / nay yr aid he / for lack of a better though I be not able ne worthy I am paron and curate of this paryhe / and thenne that other aualed his bonet and aid mayter paron I praye yow to be not depleayd / I had uppoed ye had not be benefyced / But mayter ayd he / I pray yow what is this benyce worth to yow a yere / Forothe ayd the good ymple man / I wote neuer / for I make neuer accomptes thereof / how wel I haue had hit four or fyue yere / And knowe ye not aid he what it is worth / it hold eme a good benefyce / no Forothe ayd he / But I wote wel what it halle be worth to me / Why ayd he / what halle hit be worth / Forothe ayd he / yf I doo my trewe dylygece in the cure of my paryhēs in prechyng and techynge / and doo my parte longynge to my cure / I halle haue heuen therfore / And yf theyre owles ben lot or ony of them by my defawte / I hall be punyhed therfore / And herof am I ure / And with that word the ryche dene was abahed And thought he hold be the