Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/92



En preyen omtyme that / that hold be blamed & vitupered / And ofte men blamen & vytuperen that / that hold be preyed / as reciteth to vs this fable of a / To whome it happyd on a tyme that he drank in a fonteyn or welle as he dranke / he awe in the water his hede which was horned / wherfore he preyed moche his hornes / And as he loked on his legges / whiche were lene and mal / he depreyed and vytupered them / And as he was drynkynge in the fontayne he herd the voys and barkynge of dogges / wherfore he wold haue fledde awey in to the foret for to aue hym elf / but as he awe the dogges o hym he wold haue entred within a buhe / but he myght not / for his homes kepte hym / And thenne eyng that he myght not ecape began to aye within hym elf / I haue blamed and vytupered my legges / whiche haue ben to me and prouffitable / and haue preyed my hornes / whiche ben now caue