< The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs) < Vol. II < Liber Quartus

¶ 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


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