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Aesop's Fables: Caxton (1484)6.11. Of the ante and of the columbe None ought / to be slowful of the good whiche he receyueth of other
/ As reherceth this fable of an Ante / whiche came to a fontayne
for to drynke / and as she wold haue dronke she felle within the
fontayn / vpon the whiche was a columbe or douue / whiche seyng that
the Ante shold haue ben drowned withoute helpe / took a braunche
of a tree / &a cast it to her for to saue her self / And the Ante
wente anone vpon the braunche and saued her / And anone after came
a Fawkoner / whiche wold haue take the douue / And thenne the Ante
whiche sawe that the Fawkoner dressyd his nettes came to his foote
/ and soo fast pryked hit / that she caused hym to smyte the erthe
with his foote / and therwith made soo grete noyse / that the douue
herd hit / wherfore she flewhe aweye or the gynne and nettes were
al sette
 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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