Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/38



hanne a man hath lot his dignyte or offyce / he mute his fyrt or hardynes / to / that he be not iniuryed and mocqued of euery one / wherof Eope heweth vnto uche a fable / There was a lyon whiche in his yongthe was fyers and moche outragyous / ¶ And when he was come to his old age / there came to hym a wyldbore / whiche with his teeth rent and a grete pyece of his body and auenged upon hym of the wrong the lyon had doo to hym before that tyme /   ¶ After came to hym the whiche mote and hurted hym with his hornes / And an ae came there / whiche mote hym in the forhede with his feete by maner of vyndycacion / And thenne the poure Lyon beganne to wepe ayenge within hym elf in this manere / When I was yonge and euery one doubted and fered me / and now that I am old and feble / and to my dethe / none is that etteth ne holdeth ought by me / but of euery one I am etten aback / I haue lot alle