Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/84

  ore he held his pees as wy and age / And the hors wente his waye /   ¶ And within a lytyl whyl after / it befelle / that fortune tourned his whele vp odoune / For thys fayre hors became old lene and eke /   ¶ And whanne his mayter awe that his hors was thus lene and eke and oute of properyte / he comaūded that he hold be had in to the toun and that in tede of his ryche adel men hold put and ette on his backe a for to bere dounge in to the feldes / Now it happed that the ae whiche was in a medowe etyng grae perceyued and awe the hors and wel knewe hym / wherof he was wonder abahed / and moche that he was thus poure and o lene bycome /   ¶ And the ae went toward hym and ayd / Ha a felawe. where is now thy fayre adel / and thy ryche brydel / garnyhed with gold / how arte thow now bycome oo lene and uche a / what haue prouffyted to the thy fayre and ryche / and what now to thy grete yerte and pryde / and thy grete preumpcion whiche ones thow hewet to me / Thynke now/ how thow arte lene and vnthryfty / and how thow and I ben now of one offyce / And the myerable and vnhappy hors was abahed / and for hame loked dounward / & anuerd neuer one word / for alle his was thenne turned