Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/94



Efore the goddes and the goddees men mute euer preye chatyte / for it is a worhipful & an honet thyng to a woman to hold contente with a man alone / but Venus for her & for to dryue aweye the tyme / wold Interprete the ayenge of the hennes / wherfore he a henne whiche was in her hows / but at this tyme I hal kepe my tongue / and no ferther I halle peke therof / For many wye men whiche haue ene and redde alle this book vndertanden wel alle the nature of hit / and by caue it is lycyte & honet / And that we alle ben bounden to kepe the ladyes in theyre worhip and honour / alo that in euery place where hit halle be poible to vs we ought to preye them / We halle now cee to enquere ferther of this matere / and hitoryye / whiche we hall leue in latyn for the grete clerkes / & in epecial for them that wylle occupye theyr tyme to judge and rede the gloe of the ayd Eope