Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/44



E that euer doth euylle ought not to uppoe haue no trut that his prayer at his nede halle be herd / Of the whiche thynge Eope heweth to us uche a fable / Of a whiche was eke / o moche that he had no trute to recouer his helthe / And as he awe hym o vexed with feblenes / he prayd his moder that he hold praye vnto the goddes for hym / And his moder anuerd to hym / My one thow hat o gretely offendyd and blaphemyd the goddes that now they auenge them on the / For thow preyet not them by pyte ne by loue / but for dolour and drede / For he whiche ledeth euylle lyf / and that in his euylle delynge is obtynate / ought not to haue hope to be delyuered of his euyll / For whan one is fall into extremyte of his ekenes / thenne is the tyme come that he mut be payed of his Werkes and dedes / For he that offendeth other in his properyte / whan he falleth in to adueryte / he fyndeth no frendes