The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Annotated/Vol. II/Liber Primus/Fable 14

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Fable 14: The Egle whiche bare a mutte in his becke and the Rauen

Fable 15

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Numbered 490 in the Perry Index. Translated from French by William Caxton and first published in 1484. This is a version of The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Primus/Fable 14 that has been annotated by the Wikisource community.

Aesop3909436The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope, Liber Primus — Fable 14: The Egle whiche bare a mutte in his becke and the Rauen1889William Caxton

¶ The xiiij fable is of the Egle whiche bare a nutte in his becke and of the rauen

e that is sure and wel garnysshed yet by fals counceyll may be betrayed / wherof Esope telleth suche a fable / ¶ An Egle was somtyme vpon a tree / whiche held with his bylle a nutte / whiche he coulde not breke / the rauen came to hym / and sayd / Thow shalt neuer breke it / tylle thow fleest as hyghe as thow mayst / and thenne late it falle vpon the stones / And the Egle beganne to flyhe and lete fall his proye / and thus he lost his notte / ¶ And thus many one ben deceyued thorughe fals counceylle / and by the fals tongue of other.