The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Annotated/Vol. II/Liber Primus/Fable 19
¶ The xix fable is of the mylan whiche was seke and of his moder
E that euer doth euylle ought not to suppose ne haue no trust that his prayer at his nede shalle be herd / Of the whiche thynge Esope sheweth to us suche a fable / Of a mylan whiche was seke / so moche that he had no truste to recouer his helthe / And as he sawe hym so vexed with feblenes / he prayd his moder that she shold praye vnto the goddes for hym / And his moder ansuerd to hym / My sone thow hast so gretely offendyd and blasphemyd the goddes that now they wol auenge them on the / For thow preyest not them by pyte ne by loue / but for dolour and drede / For he whiche ledeth euylle lyf / and that in his euylle delynge is obstynate / ought not to haue hope to be delyuered of his euyll / For whan one is fall into extremyte of his sekenes / thenne is the tyme come that he must be payed of his Werkes and dedes / For he that offendeth other in his prosperyte / whan he falleth in to aduersyte / he fyndeth no frendes.