The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Quartus/Fable 13

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Numbered 392 in the Perry Index. Translated from French by William Caxton and first published in 1484. Click here to create an annotated version of this text.

3810143The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope, Liber Quartus — Fable 13: The Asse and the WulfWilliam Caxton

¶ The xiij fable is of the asse / and of the wulf

TO none euyelle[errata 1] man feythe ne trouthe ought neuer to be adiousted / As men may wel see by this fable / Of a wulf whiche vysyted an asse whiche was wel seke the whiche wulf beganne to fele and taste hym / and demaunded of hym / My broder and my frend where aboute is thy sore / And the asse sayd to hym / there as thow tastest  ¶ And thenne the wulf faynyng to vysyte hym / beganne to byte and smyte hym /  ¶ And therfore men must not trust flaterers / For one thynge they saye / and done another

  1. Original: eyylle was amended to euyelle: detail