Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/36



e that is ure and wel garnyhed yet by fals counceyll may be betrayed / wherof Eope telleth uche a fable / ¶ An Egle was omtyme vpon a tree / whiche held with his a nutte / whiche he coulde not breke / the came to hym / and ayd / Thow halt neuer breke it / tylle thow fleet as hyghe as thow mayt / and thenne it falle vpon the tones / And the Egle beganne to flyhe and lete fall his proye / and thus he lot his notte /   ¶ And thus many one ben deceyued thorughe fals counceylle / and by the fals tongue of other