The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 6
¶ The vi fable is of the wulf and of the lambe
He byrth causeth no so moche to gete some frendes / as cloth the goodnes / wherof Esope reherceth to vs suche a fable / Of a wulf whiche sawe a lambe among a grete herd of gootes / the whiche lambe sowked a gote / And the wulf wente and sayd to hym / this gote is not thy moder / goo and seke her at the Montayn / for she shalle nourysshe the more swetely and more tendyrly than this gote shalle/ And the lambe ansuerd to hym / This goote nouryssheth me instede of my moder / For she leneth to me her pappes soner than to ony of her own children / And yet more / hit is better for me to be here with these gootes than to departe fro hens / and to falle in to thy throte for to be deuoured / And therfore he is a foole whiche leueth fredome or surete / For to put hym self in grete perylle and daunger of dethe / For better is to lyue surely and rudely in sewrte than swetely in peryll & daunger