Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/71



O make boot and is but vayne glorye and folye / wherof Eope recyteth uche a fable / Of the ante or formyce and of the flye / whiche tryued / for to whiche was the mot noble of them bothe / & the flye ayd to the  / Come hyder formyce / wylt thow compare thy elf to me that dwelle in the kynges places and palays / and ete and drynke at theyr table / And alo I kye bothe kynge and quene / and the mot fayre maydens / and thow poure and beet thow arte euer within the erthe / And the formyce anuerd to the flye / Now knowe I wel thy vanyte and folye /   ¶ For thow the of that wherof thou holet depraye the /

For fro alle places where as thow goot or flyet / thow arte hated chaced and put oute / and lyuet in grete daunger / for aone as the wynter halle come thow halt deye / And I hal abyde on lyue alone within my chamber or hole / where as I drynke and ete at my playyr / For the