Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/61



E that ought not to be that applyketh and etteth to doo omme other eny euyll / wherof eope reherceth uche a fable / Of a erpent / whiche wente & came into the hows of a poure man / which erpent lyued of that whiche felle fro the poure mans table / For the whiche thynge happed a grete fortune to this poure man and bycame moche ryche / But on a daye this man was angry ageynte the erpent / and took a grete taf / and mote at hym / and gretely hurted him / wherfore the erpente wente oute of his hous   And therin he came neuer ageyne / And within a lytyll whyle after this / this man retourned and felle ageyne in to grete pouerte / And thenne he knewe that by the fortune of the Serpent he was bycome ryche / and repented hym moche of that he mote the erpent / And thenne this poure man wente and hūbled hym before the erpent ayenge to hym / I the that thow wylt pardonne me of thoffene that I have done to the / ¶ And