Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/78



He myghty and oughte not to be lowfull of the benefetes done to them by the lytyl and malle   And oughte not alo to forgete them / but that they may be rewarded of them /   ¶ And this fable eope & howeth vnto vs / of a lyon whiche ranne after a beet / and as he ranne / a thorne entred into his foote / whiche hurted and hym gretely / wherfore he mught no ferther goo / but as wel as he cowde he came to a hepeherd whiche kepte his heep and beganne to flatere with his taylle hewynge to hym hys foote / whiche was ore hurted and wounded / The hepherd was in grete drede and cated before the lyon one of his heep / But the lyon demaunded no mete of hym / For more he deyred to be medycyned and made hole of his foote /   ¶ And after whenne the hepherde awe the wounde / he with