Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/54



Yght o it happeth / that he that menaceth hath drede and is ferdful / wherof Eope reherceth to vs uche a fable   Of a  whiche beganne to tremble and hake by caue of the molle whiche delued hit / And whanne the folke awe that the erthe beganne thus to hake / they were ore aferd and dredeful / and not wel come ne approche the hylle / But after whanne they were come to the montayne / & knewe how the molle caued this hylle hakynge / theyr doubte and drede were conuerted vnto Joye / and beganne alle to lawhe / And therfore men ought not to doubte al folk which ben of grete wordes and menaces / For ome menacen that haue grete doubte