The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 4
¶ The fourthe maketh mencyon of the sowe and of the wulf
T is not good to byleue all suche thynges as men may here / wherof Esope sayeth suche a fable / Of a wulf whiche came toward a sowe whiche wepte and made sorowe for the grete payne that she felte / by cause she wold make her young pygges / And the wulf came to her sayeng / My suster make thy yonge pygges surely / for ioyously and with good wylle / I shalle helpe & serue the / And the sowe sayd thenne to hym / go forth on thy waye / for I haue no nede ne myster of suche a seruaunt / For as longe as thow shalt stonde here I shal not delyuere me of my charge / For other thyng thou desyrest not / than to haue and ete them / The wulf then wente / and the sowe was anone delyuerd of her pygges/ For yf she had byleuyd hym she had done a sorowful byrthe / And thus he that folysshly byleueth it happeth to hym