Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/35



Ow the puyant & myghty mut doubte the feble Esope reherceth to vs uche a fable / Ther was an Egle whiche came ther as young foxes were / and took awey one of them / and gaf to his younge Egles to fede them with   The foxe wente after hym & praid hym to retore and gyue hym ageyne his yong foxe / and the Egle aid that he wold not / For he was ouer hym lord and maiter/   ¶ And thenne the foxe fulle of hrewdnes and malyce beganne to put grete habondaunce of traws round aboute the tree / where vpon the egle and his yonge were in theyr net/ and kyndeled it with fyre /   ¶ And whan the moke and the flambe began to rye vpward / the Egle ferdfulle and doubtyng the dethe of her lytylle egles retored ageyne the younge foxe to his moder ¶ This fable heweth vs / how the myghty men oughte not to in  thynge the mall folke / For the lytyle ryght ofte may lette and trouble the grete