1.07. de fure malo et sole
Caxton: Of the theef and of the sonne
No man is chaunged by nature but of an euyll man maye wel yssue and come a wers than hym self / wherof Esope telleth suche a fable / A theef held the feest of his weddynge / And his neyghbours came there as the fest was holden and worshipped and bare honour to the theef / And as a wyse man sawe that the neyghbours of this theef were ioyeful and glad / he sayd to them / ye make Ioye & gladness of that / wherof ye shold wepe / take hede thenne to my wordes and vnderstond your Ioye / The sonne wold ones be maryed / But alle the Nacions of the world were ageynst hym / & prayd Iupiter that he shold kepe the sonne fro weddyng / & Iupiter demaunded of them the cause why they wolde not haue hym to be wedded / the one of them said / Iupiter thou knowest wel / how ther is but one sonne & yet he brenneth vs al / & yf he be maryed & haue ony children / they shal destroye al kynde / And this fable techeth vs that we ought not to be reioysshed of euyll felauship /
And this fable techeth vs that we ought not to be reioysshed of euyll felauship /
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