Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/55



He byrth caueth no o moche to gete ome frendes / as cloth the goodnes / wherof Eope reherceth to vs uche a fable / Of a wulf whiche awe a lambe among a grete herd of gootes / the whiche lambe a gote / And the wulf wente and ayd to hym / this gote is not thy moder / goo and eke her at the Montayn / for he halle nouryhe more wetely and more tendyrly than this gote halle/ And the lambe anuerd to hym / This goote nouryheth me intede of my moder / For he to me her  oner than to ony of her own children / And yet more / hit is better for me to be here with thee gootes than to departe fro / and to falle in to thy throte for to be deuoured / And therfore he is a foole whiche fredome or urete / For to put hym elf in grete perylle and daunger of dethe / For better is to urely and rudely in  than wetely in peryll & daunger