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¶ The fyrst fable maketh mencyon of the foxe and of the raysyns

HE is not wyſe / that deſyreth to haue a thynge whiche he may not haue / As reciteth this fable  Of a foxe / whiche loked and beheld the rayſyns that grewe vpon an hyghe vyne / the whiche rayſyns he moche deſyred for to ete them   ¶ And whanne he ſawe that none he myght gete / he torned his ſorowe in to Ioye / and ſayd theſe rayſyns ben

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