Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/95



He woman whiche lyueth in this world without reproche or blame is worthely to be gretely preyed / Wherof Eope reherceth uche a fable of a man and of a woman / whiche loued moche eche other / It happed thenne by the effors of Atropos or dethe / the whiche we al mut uffer that the ayd man deyde / And as men wold haue hym in to his graue / whiche was withoute the there to be buryed / his wyf made grete orowe and wepte pyteouly / And whanne he was buryed / he wold abyde tylle vpon the graue / and lete do make a lytyll lodge or hows therupon / and oute of this lodge he wold neuer departe for no prayer ne fayr word / neyther for ony ne for menaces of her parents   Now it befell in the toun that a mydoer was condampned to be hanged /   ¶ And to thende that he hold not be taken  the gallows / hit was thenne commaunded that a knyght hold kepe hym / And as the knyght kepte hym / grete thurte took hym / And as he perceyued the lodge of