The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Quartus/Fable 19
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¶ The xix fable is of the sheep and of the Crowe
En ought not to iniurye ne desprayse the poure Innocentes ne the symple folke As reherceth this fable / Of a Crowe / whiche sette her self vpon the back of a sheep / And whan the sheep had born her a grete whyle she sayd to her / thow shalt kepe thy self wel to sette vpon a dogge / ¶ And thenne the crowe sayd to the sheep / Thynke thow poure Innocent that I wote wel with whome I playe / For I am old and malycious / and my kynde is to lette all Innocents/ and to be frende vnto the euyls / ¶ A[n]d therfore this fable wylle telle and saye / how ther be folke of suche kynde / that they wyl doo no good werk / but only to lette euer the Innocents and symple folke