Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/86



One maye do no good to two lordes at / whiche  cotrary one to that other / as ayth to vs this fable that the beetes made grete werre ageynt the byrdes / & fought euery day to gyder / And the feryng the wulues And that the beetes hold vaynquyhe and ouercome the byrdes / wold haue hold with the beetes / and be ageynt the byrdes / And whanne the batylle was ordeyned on bothe ydes / the egle beganne to entre in to the batayll of the beetes by uche a trengthe / that with the help of the other byrdes he gat the feld / and vaynquyhed / and ouercame the betes / wherfor the betes maade pees with the byrdes / and were alle of one accord and of one wylle / And for the treaon that the backe had made / he was condempned to neuer ee the day / And neuer flee / but only by nyght / And alo he was depoylled of alle her fethers / And therfore he that wylle erue two lordes cōtrary one to other may-not be good ne trewe / And they wheche relynquen