The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Primus/Fable 9
¶ The ix fable is of the two bytches
t is not good to byleue what flaterers
and euyll men saye / for by theyr
swete wordes / they deceyue the
good folke / whereof Esope reherceth
such a fable / This was a
bytche which wold lyttre and be delyuerd of her
lytyl dogges / and came to the hows of another
bytche / & prayd her by swete and fayre wordes
that she would lene to her a place for to lyttre
her lytyll dogges / And this other lend to her /
her bed and her hows wenynge to doo wel /
And whan the bytche had lyttred her lytyl
dogges / the good bytche sayd to the other / that
it was tyme that she shold goo and departe oute
of her hows And then the bytche and her young
dogges ranne vpon the other / and boot and
casted her oute of her owne hows / and thus for
to have doo well / grete dommage cometh ofte
therfore And ofte the good men lese theyr goodes
by the decepcion and flaterye of the peruers and
evylle folke /