Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/58



En ay conynly that after that the tyme goth / o mut folke go / For yf thow maket detinction of the tyme thow halt wel accord the Scryptures / wherof Eope reherceth to vs uche a fable / And ayth thus / that he whiche beholdeth the euylle of other / mut haue pacyence of the euyile that maye come vpon hym / For omtyme as a hunter chaced thurgh the feldes and woodes / the hares beganne to flee for fere   And as they ranne / they adreyd them in to a medowe fulle of frogges /   ¶ And whanne the frogges herd the hares renne they beganne alo to flee and to renne fat / And thenne a hare whiche perceyued them o ferdfull ayd to alle his felawes / Lete us no more be dredeful doubtuous / for we be not alone that haue had drede / For alle the frogges ben in doubte / and haue fere and drede as we haue / Therfore we ought not to depayre / but haue trut and hope to lyue / And yf omme adueryte cometh vpon us / we mut here it pacyently / For ones the tyme