Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/64



F a lytyl euylle may wel come a gretter / Wherof Eope recyteth uche a fable / Of a flye / whiche pryked a man vpon his bald hede / And whanne he wold have myte her / he flewgh awey / And thus he mote hym elf / wherof the fly beganne to lawhe / And the bald man ayd to her / Ha a euylle beet thow demaundet wel thy dethe / yf I mote my elf wherof thow lawhet and mocquet me / But yf I had hytte the / thow haddet be therof layne / And therfore men ayen comynly that of the euylle of other / men ought not to lawhe ne corne / But the mocquen and cornen the world / and geteth many enemyes / For the whiche caue oftyme it happeth that of a fewe wordes euyll ette / cometh a grete noye and daunger