Aesop's Fables: Caxton (1484)
Avyan 20. Of the crowe whiche was a thurst
(Perry 390)
Better is crafte and subtylyte than force / As reherceth to vs this fable
/ Of a crowe whiche vpon a day came for to drynke oute of a boket / and
by cause that she myght not reche to the water / she dyd fyll the boket
ful of small stones / in soo moche that the water came vpward / wherof
she dranke thenne at her wylle / and playsyre /
And therfore hit appiereth wel / that wytte or sapyence is a moche
fayr verture For by sapyence or wytte / thow shalt mowe resyste to all
faultes /
 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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