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Aesop's Fables: Caxton (1484)6.9. Of the labourer and of the pyelarge He whiche is taken with the wicked and euyll oughte to suffre payne
and punycyon as they / As it appiereth by this fable / Of a labourer
whiche somtyme dressyd and sette his gynnes and nettes for to take
the ghees and the cranes / whiche ete his corne / It happed thenne
that ones amonge a grete meyny of ghees and cranes / he took a pyelarge
/ whiche prayd the labourer in this maner / I praye the lete me go
/ For I am neyther goos ne crane nor I am not come hyther for to
do to the ony euylle / The labourer beganne thenne to lawhe / and
sayd to the pyelarge / yf thow haddest not be in theyr felauship
/ thow haddest not entryd in to my nettes / ne haddest not be taken
/ And by cause that thow arte founde and taken with them / thow shalt
be punysshed as they shalle be
 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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