¶ The xvi fable is of the lyon / of the wylde bore / of the bole & of the aſſe
hanne a man hath loſt his dignyte or
offyce / he muſte leue his fyrſt auducyte[errata 1]
or hardyneſs / to thende / that
he be not iniuryed and mocqued of
euery one / wherof Eſope ſheweth
vnto ſuche a fable / There was a lyon whiche
in his yongthe was fyers and moche outragyous /
¶ And when he was come to his old age / there
came to hym a wyldbore / whiche with his
teeth rent and barſt a grete pyece of his body
and auenged upon hym of the wrong the lyon
had doo to hym before that tyme / ¶ After
came to hym the boole whiche ſmote and hurted
hym with his hornes / And an aſſe came there /
whiche ſmote hym in the forhede with his feete
by maner of vyndycacion / And thenne the poure
Lyon beganne to wepe ſayenge within hym ſelf
in this manere / When I was yonge and uertuous
euery one doubted and fered me / and now that
I am old and feble / and nyghe to my dethe /
none is that ſetteth ne holdeth ought by me /
but of euery one I am ſetten aback / I haue loſt
