The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Primus/Fable 11
¶ The xi fable is of the lyon and of the asse
F them whiche mocken other esope
reherceth such a fable Ther was
an asse which met with a lyon to
whom he said my broder god
saue the & the lyon shaked his
hede and with grete payne he myght hold his
courage / to have forth with deuoured hym /
But the lyon sayd to hym self / It behoueth not
that teethe soo noble and so fayre as myn be
touchen not / ne byten suche a fowle beest / For
he that is wyse must not hurte the foole ne take
hede to his wordes / but lete hym go for suche
as he is