The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 9
¶ The ix fable maketh mencyon of the wulf and of the kydde
Ood Children ought to obserue and
kepe euer the comaundements of
theyr good parents and frendes /
wherof Esope reciteth to vs suche
a fable / Of a gote whiche had
made her yonge kyde / and honger toke her soo
that she wold haue gone to the feldes for to ete
some grasse / wherfore she sayd to her kyd / My
child / beware wel / that yf the wulf come hyder
to ete the / that thou opene not the dore to hym
¶ And whanne the gote was gone to the feldes /
came the wulf to the dore / And saynynge the
gotes voyce sayd to the kydde / My child opene
to me the dore / And thenne the kydde ansuerd to
hym / goo hens euylle and fals beste / For well
I see the thurgh that hole / But for to haue me
thow faynest the voyce of my moder / ¶ And
therfore I shalle kepe me well fro openynge of
ony dore of this hows / And thus the good children
ought euer to kepe wel / and put in theyr
hert & memory the doctryne and the techyng of
theyr parentes / For many one is vndone and lost
for faulte of obedyence