The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Annotated/Vol. II/Liber Primus/Fable 3

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The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope, Liber Primus (1889)
by Aesop, translated by William Caxton, edited by Joseph Jacobs

Fable 3: The Rat and the Frogge

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Numbered 384 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 3 that has been annotated by the Wikisource community.

Aesop3909372The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope, Liber Primus — Fable 3: The Rat and the Frogge1889William Caxton

¶ The thyrd fable is of the rat / and of the frogge /

ow it be so / that as the rat went in pylgremage / he came by a Ryuer / and demaunded helpe of a frogge tor to passe / and go over the water / And thenne the frogge bound the rats foote to her foote / and thus swymed vnto the myddes ouer the Ryuer / And as they were there the frogge stood stylle / to thende that the rat shold be drowned / And in the meane whyle came a kyte vpon them / and bothe bare them with hym / This fable made Esope for a symylytude whiche is prouffitable to many folkes / For he that thynketh evylle ageynst good / the evil whiche he thynketh shall ones falle upon hym self.