Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/79

  with a nydle ubtylly drewe oute of his foote the thorne / and had oute of the wound alle the roten flelhe / and enoynted hit with wete /   ¶ And  the lyon was hole / And for to haue rendryd graces and thankys to the hepherd or patour the lyon kyed his handes / And after he retorned ageyn in to the hyet of the / And within a lytel whyle after it happed that this lyon was taken and to the Cyte of Rome and was put amonge the other beetes for to deuoure the mydoers / Now it befelle that the ayd hepherd commyed a crymynous dede / wherfore he was condempned to be deuoured by thee betes / And ryght o as he was call among them the lyon knewe hym / and beganne to behold on hym / and made to hym chere and lykked hym with his tongue / And preerued and kepte hym from alle the other betes / Thenne knewe the hepherd that it was the lyon whiche he maade hole / And that he wold thenne haue hym of the good whiche he had done to hym / wherof alle the Romayns were all wonderly abahed / And wold knowe the caue of hit   And the heepherd ayd to them as aboue is ayd / ¶ And whanne they knewe the caue / they gaf leue to the heepherd / to goo home and ente ageyne the lyon in to the foret / And therfore