The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Other Aesop's/Fable 17
¶ The xvij fable is of the labourer and of his children
e that laboureth and werketh contynuelly maye not faylle to haue plente of goodes / as it appiereth by this present table / Of a good man labourer / whiche all his lyf had laboured and wrought / and was ryche / and whan he shold deye / he sayd to his children / My children I muste now deye / and my tresour I haue lefte in my vyne / And after that the good man was dede / his children whiche supposed that his tresour had ben in the vyne / dyd nothyng al day but delued hit / & it bare more fruyte then hyt dyd[errata 1] before / ¶ For who trauaylleth wel / he hath euer brede ynough for to ete / And he that werketh not dyeth for hongrer.
¶ Here fynysshen the Fables of Esope
¶ And after foloweth the
fables of Auyan