The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 20
¶ The xx fable maketh mencion of the Oxe / and of the frogge / whiche wold haue compared her to hym
He poure ought not to compare hym
self to hym which is ryche and
myghty / As sayth this fable of a
frogge / whiche was in a medowe /
when she aspyed and sawe an oxe
whiche pastured / She wold make her self as grete
and as myghty as the oxe / and by her grete
pryde sie beganne to swelle ageynste the oxe /
And denaunded of his children yf she was not
as grete as the oxe and as myghty / And theyr
children ansuerd and sayd nay moder / For to
loke and behold on the oxe / it semeth of yow to
be nothynge / And thenne the frogge beganne
more to swelle / ¶ And when the oxe sawe her
pryde / he thradde and thrested her with his fote /
and brake her bely / Therfore hit is not good to
the poure to compare hym self to the ryche /
Wherfore men sayn comynly / Swelle not thy
self / to thende that thow breste not
¶ Here fynysshed the second booke of Esope /