Page:The Fables of Bidpai (Panchatantra).djvu/164

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
68
THE SECOND PART OF MORALL PHILOSOPHIE.

Beholde the pageants and miʃeries of the court of this Worlde.

There was a Heyward or neteyarde that had the keeping of a great herde of Cattell in a large common, as Gotes, Sheepe, Mares, Kyne, Horſes, and Bullockes, And it happened that a Bull amongſt the herde (called by ye herdman Chiarino) became in looue wyth a iolye yonge Heighfare, that had diuers trimme markes and ſpottes on her ſkinne, and was fauoured and belyked alſo of the Herdman —ho for hir beautie and fayreneſſe named hir likewiſe Incoronata, and many times did crowne hir with a garlande of ſundrye ſortes of flowers. Ill fortune willinge it, and hir deſtinye with all, this fayre yonge Heighfare playing and leaping from hill to hill, unfortunately fell and brake hir necke, and with hir fall dyed. This herdman ſimplye fleade hir, and with hir fayre ſkinne made him an open caſſock ſauadge faſhion. Now I leaue you to imagine the rage and madneſſe of this Bull, lacking his fayre yonge heighfare, that like other Bulles wandered vp and downe to ſeeke hir. In this raging beſtiall loue of hys, the herdeman fooliſhly caſt vpon him the caſſock made of the heighfares ſkinne, which this Bull ſeing runneth fiercely vnto the herdeman, lowing