Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/88



E that oppreeth the Innocents halle haue an euyl ende / wherof Eope reherceth to vs uche a fable / Of a / whiche dyd put hym within the net of a nyghtyngale / where he fond the lytyl and yonge byrdes / the nyghtyngale came and perceyued hym / wherfore he the perehawke / ayeng/ I requyre and praye the as moche as I may / that thow haue pyte on my mal byrdes / And the perehawke anuerd and ayd / yf thow wylt that I graunte the thy requet / thow mut ynge wetely after my wylle and    And thenne the nyghtyngale beganne to ynge wetely / not with the herte / but with the throte onely / For he was o fulled with orowe that otherwye he myght not doo / The perehawk ayd thenne to the nyghtyngale / This onge playeth me not / And toke one of the yonge byrdes and deuoured hit / And as the ayd perehawke would haue deuoured and eten the other came there a hunter whiche dyd cate a grete