turned to hir neaſt, & ſawe (hauing a verie good eye) hir children in a hundreth peeces, ſhee pitifully lamented, the teares trickling downe hir cheekes. The little beaſt that in a hole ſtoode to ſee the ende of this tragedy, ſeing the Eagle take on thus heauily, ſaid vnto hir: nay, nay, it makes no matter, thou art euen well ſerued: thou wouldeſt not let my Leueret alone, and with that he ſhronke into his hole, that the deuill himſelfe could not finde him out. So that my good Maiſter Aſſe and deare brother, a man muſt beware of will: for all thynges may be brought to paſſe, and nothing is hard to him that determineth to doe it. Well yet heare another and then woonder as thou wilt. It booteth not to ſtriue agaynſt the ſtreame.
There was a Rauen that in the top of a great old tree, in a hollow place of the ſame (where none could find out hir neafſt) did euer lay hir egges. Beholde there came out of a hole at the roote of the old rotten tree a Snake, which leape by leape got vp to the toppe of the tree, and ſucked theſe egges when they were newly laydeſ: and woorſe than that, what prouiſion of vitailes ſoever the Rauen had brought to hir neaſt, the Snake ſtill deuoured, ſo that the pore Rauen could neuer haue hir
