Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/60



Ood Children ought to oberue and kepe euer the comaundements of theyr good parents and frendes / wherof Eope reciteth to vs uche a fable / Of a gote whiche had made her yonge kyde / and honger toke her oo that he wold haue gone to the feldes for to ete ome grae / wherfore he ayd to her kyd / My child / beware wel / that yf the wulf come hyder to ete the / that thou opene not the dore to hym ¶ And whanne the gote was gone to the feldes / came the wulf to the dore / And aynynge the gotes voyce ayd to the kydde / My child opene to me the dore / And thenne the kydde anuerd to hym / goo euylle and fals bete / For well I ee the thurgh that hole / But for to haue me thow the voyce of my moder /    ¶ And therfore I halle kepe me well openynge of ony dore of this hows / And thus the good children ought euer to kepe wel / and put in theyr hert & memory the doctryne and the techyng of theyr parentes / For many one is vndone and lot for faulte of obedyence