The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Quartus/Fable 13

3810143The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope, Liber Quartus — Fable 13: The Asse and the WulfWilliam Caxton

¶ The xiij fable is of the asse / and of the wulf

TO none euyelle[errata 1] man feythe ne trouthe ought neuer to be adiousted / As men may wel see by this fable / Of a wulf whiche vysyted an asse whiche was wel seke the whiche wulf beganne to fele and taste hym / and demaunded of hym / My broder and my frend where aboute is thy sore / And the asse sayd to hym / there as thow tastest  ¶ And thenne the wulf faynyng to vysyte hym / beganne to byte and smyte hym /  ¶ And therfore men must not trust flaterers / For one thynge they saye / and done another

  1. Original: eyylle was amended to euyelle: detail