Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/43

  rat herd hym crye / he approched hym & demaunded of hym wherfor he cryed / And the lyon anuerd to hym / Seet thou not how I am take & bound with this / Thenne ayd the ratte to hym / My lord I wylle not be vnkynde / but euer I hal remembre the grace whiche thou hat done to me / And if I can I hall now helpe / The ratte beganne thenne to byte the lace or cord / and o long he knawed it that the lace brake / And thus the lyon ecaped /   ¶ Therfore this fable techeth vs how that a man myghty and puyant ought not to dypraye the lytyll / For omtyme he that can no body hurte ne may at a nede gyue help and ayde to the grete