The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Quartus/Fable 19

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The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope, Liber Quartus (1484)
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Fable 19: The Sheep and the Crowe
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Numbered 553 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.

3810158The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope, Liber Quartus — Fable 19: The Sheep and the CroweWilliam Caxton

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¶ The xix fable is of the sheep and of the Crowe

MEn 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

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