Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/51



Hanne that one gyueth ony thyng / men ought wel to take hede / to what ende hit is gyuen / wherof Eope reherceth uche a fable / of a theef which came on a within a manns hows for to haue robbed hym / And the good mans dogge beganne to bark at hym / And thenne the theef cated at hym a pyece of brede / And the dogge ayd to hym / thow catet not this brede for no good wylle / but only to the ende / that I hold my pees / to thende that thow mayt robbe my mayter / and therfore hit were not good for me / that for a morell of brede / I hold lee my lyf / wherfore goo fro hens / or els I halle anone awake my mayter and alle his meyne / The dogge theynne beganne to bark / and the theef beganne to flee / And thus by couetye many one hue oftyme receyued grete / the whiche haue been caue of theyr dethe and to lee theyre heedes / ¶ Wherfore