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¶ The xvij fable is of the aſſe and of the yong dogge

None ought to entermete hym of that what he can not do wherof Eſope recyted ſuche a fable / Of an aſſe whiche was in the hows of a lord / whiche lord had a lytyle dogge / whiche he loued wel / and gaf hym mete and ete vpon his table / And the lytyle dogge loked and chered / and lepte vpon his gowne / And to alle them that were in the hows he made chere /

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