Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/77



He poure ought not to compare hym elf to hym which is ryche and myghty / As ayth this fable of a frogge / whiche was in a medowe / when he apyed and awe an oxe whiche patured / She wold make her elf as grete and as myghty as the oxe / and by her grete pryde ie beganne to ageynte the oxe / And of his children yf he was not as grete as the oxe and as myghty / And theyr children anuerd and ayd nay moder / For to loke and behold on the oxe / it emeth of yow to be nothynge / And thenne the frogge beganne more to welle /   ¶ And when the oxe awe her pryde / he and  her with his fote / and brake her bely / Therfore hit is not good to the poure to compare hym elf to the ryche / Wherfore men comynly / Swelle not thy elf / to thende that thow not