Aesop's Fables: Caxton (1484)
4.16. Of the camel / and of the flee
(Perry 137)
He that hath no myght ought not to gloryfye ne preyse hym self of no
thynge / As reherceth to vs this presente fable of a camele / whiche bare
a grete charge or burden It happed that a flee by cause of the camels
here lepte to the back of the camel / and made her to be borne of hym
all the day And whanne they had made a grete way / And that the camel
came at euen to the lodgys / and was put in the stable / the flee lepte
fro hym to the ground besyde the foote of the camel / And after she sayd
to the camel / I haue pyte of the / and am comen doune fro thy back by
cause that I wylle nomore greue ne trauaylle the by the berynge of me
/ And the camel sayd to the flee / I thanke the / how be it that I am
not sore laden of the /
And therfore of hym which may neyther helpe ne lette men nede not make
grete estymacion of
 Caxton
published his edition of Aesop's fables in 1484. There are modern reprints by
Joseph Jacobs (D. Nutt: London, 1889) and more recently by Robert Lenaghan (Harvard
University Press: Cambridge, 1967). Lenaghan's edition is available at amazon.com.
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