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