Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/48

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¶ The fyrst fable is of the frogges and of Jupyter

NO thyng is ſo good as to lyue Juſtly and at lyberte For fredome and lyberte is better than ony gold or ſyluer / wherof Eſope reherceth to vs ſuche a fable / There were frogges whiche were in dyches and pondes at theyre lyberte / they alle to gyder of one aſſente & of one wylle maade a requeſt to Jupiter that he wold gyue them a kynge / And Jupyter beganne