The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works Volume 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...sharpe longe nayles /I pray yow to haue pite of me and that ye wil punysshe this false traytour and morderar/or ellis shal ther noman goo and comen ouer the heth in saefte / whyles he haunteth his false and shrewde rewle/ cor&ant tbe roke complapneD on tbe fore for tfje oert) of tig topf capitulo Yght as the cony had made an ende of his complaynt / cam in corbant the roek flowen in the (place to fore the kynge and sayde/dere lorde here!me/I brynge you hier a pietous complaynt /I wente to day by the morow wyth sharpebek my wyf for to playe vpon the heth And there laye reynart the foxe doun on the.grounde lyke a dede keytyf/hys eyen stared and his tonge henge longe out of his mouth /lyke an hounde had ben deed/ we tasted and felte his bely/but we fonde theron no lyf/ tho wente my wyf and herkened and leyde her ere to fore his mouth for to wite yf he drewe his breeth / whiche mysfylle her euyl / ffor the false felle foxe awayted wel his tyme and whan he sawe her so nygh hym /he caught her by the heed and boote it off /tho was I in grete sorowe and cryde lowde/ Alas alas what is there happed /thenne stode he hatelsy vp/and raught so couetously after me that for feere of deth / I trembled and flewh vpon a tree therby and sawe fro ferre how the false keytyf ete and slonked her in so hungerly that he lefte neyther flessh ne bone/nomore but a fewe fethers/ the smal fethers he slange them in wyth the flessh / he was so hungry /he wolde wel haue eten tweyne/Tho wente he his strete/tho flewe I doun wyth grete sorow and gadred vp the fetheris for to shewe them to you here / 1 wolde not be agayn 56 NOBLE THE KING IS SORE ANGRY. WcSxton June 1481. in suche peryl and fere as I was there for a thousand marke / of the fynest gold that euer cam out ofarabye/My lord the k...