also thou oughtest to praise the acts or deeds, 

 which they have done in their young age, whereof 

 Esop rehearseth to us such a fable. There was 

 a Lord which had a dog, the which in his youth 

 had beene of good kind : as namely to chase and 

 hunt, and to have great lust to run and take the 

 wild beasts. And when this dogge was come 

 to old age, and that he could no more run, it 

 hapned once that he let goe and escaped from 

 him a Hare, wherefore his Master was wroth and 

 angry, and in great rage began to beat him. 

 Then said the Dogge unto him, My Master, for 

 good service thou yeeldest me evil : for in my 

 young age and prosperity, I served thee right 

 well, and now that I am come to my old age, 

 thou hatest and setteth me backe. Remember, 

 I pray thee how that in my young age I was 

 strong and lustie, and now when I am old and 

 feeble, thou settest nothing by me. Therefore, 

 who so doth any good in his youth, in his old 

 age he shall not continue in the vertues which he 

 possessed in his youth. 



Of the Wolfe and the Dogge ^> o o 



I BERTIE or freedome is a pleasant thing, 

 -* — " whereof Esop rehearseth a fable. A wolfe 

 and a dogge by chance met together. And the 



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