Paul Summers Young

  Capitulo xxxv. How Ysegrym preffered his glove to the Fox for to fight with him. The Wolf said I may well forbear your mocks and your scorns and also your fell venomous words strong theif that ye are ye said I was almost dead for hunger when ye helped me in my need that is falsely lied for it was but a bone ye gave me ye had eaten away all the flesh was thereon and ye mock me and say I am hungry  here where I stand that touches my worship too nigh what many a spiteful word have ye brought forth with false lyings and that I have conspired the King's death for the treasure ye have said to him is in Hulsterlo and ye have also my wife shamed and slandered that ye shall never recover it and I should ever be disworshipped thereby if I avenge it not I have foreborn you long but now ye shall not escape me I cannot make hereof great proof but I say here before my Lord and before all them that be here that thou art a false traitor and a murderer and that shall I prove and make good on...

Capitulo xxxiiij. A fait parable of the Fox and the Wolf. Said Dame Erswyn my Lord I pray you all hear how he can blow with all winds and how fair brings he his matters forth said the Wolf thus has he brought me many time in scathe and hurt he has once betrayed me to the She-Ape my aunt where I was in great dread and fear for I left there almost my one ear if the Fox will tell how it befell I will give him the benefit thereof for I can not tell it so well but he shall scald me said the Fox well I shall tell it without stammering I shall say the truth I pray you hearken me he came into the wood and complained to me he had great hunger for I saw him never so full but he would always have more I wonder where the meat comes that he destroys I see now on his countenance he begins to groan with hunger when I heard him so complain I had pity on him and I said I was also hungry then went we half a day together and found nothing though whined he and cried and said he might go no further then es...

  Capitlo xxxiij. How Ysegrym the Wolf complained against the Fox. My Lord I pray you take heed this false thief  betrayed my wife once foul and dishonestly it was so on a winter's day they went together  through a great water and he bear my wife a hand that he would teach her take fish with her tail and that she should let it hang in the water a good while and there should so much fish cleave to it that four of them should not eat it the fool my wife supposed he had said truth and she went in the mire up to the belly ere she came into the water and when she was in the deepest of the water he bade her hold her tail still til the fish came she held her tail so long it was frozen hard in the ice and could not pluck it out and when he saw  he sprang after her alas so knavishly I am ashamed to tell it she could not defend herself the silly beast she stood so deep in the mire hereof he cannot say nay for as I went upon the bank I saw him beneath alas! what pain suffered I...

  Capitulo xxxj. Which be friends and kin unto Reynard the Fox. The first child is named Byteluys who is much cherished and can make much sport and game wherefore is given him the fat trenchers and much other good meat which comes well to profit Fulrompe his brother and also my third child is a daughter and is named Hatenette she can well pick out lice and nits from men's heads these three be to each other true wherefore I love them well Dame Rukenawe called them forth and said welcome my dear children come forth and stand by Reynard your dear nephew then said she come forth all ye that be my kin and Reynard's and let us pray the King he will do to Reynard right of the land then came forth many a beast anon as the Squirrel the Stoat the Polecat the Marten the Bever with his wife Ordegale the Genet the Ostrole the Boussyng and  the Ferret this twain fain eat a pullet as Reynard the Otter and Pantecroet his wife whom I had almost forgotten yet were they before with the Bever ene...