Zu Lydgates Isopus / [ed. Julius Zupitza].

The tale of þe hownde and þe shepe groundyd ayen periure and false wytnes founde by Isopus. [The tale—Isopus rot C, Here begynneth the .iii. fabul of Isopos L]

The world made diuerse by froward folkys tweyne, [ (4, 1)] [526 vgl. zu V. 1.] By a false iorrour and a false wytnesse, Horryble monstres enbrasyd in a cheyne

Trouþe forto assayle and greuosly to oppresse, [529 forto] to L] Whyche forto clypse þe lyght of ryghtwysnesse [ (4, 5)] [ 530] Be nat aferde with hande put forþe toforn [531 a forn L] Vppon a boke falsely to be forsworn!

With cancryd lyppes and with tung double [ 16r. a.] Twene ryght and wrong forþe þey woll procede, [534 Atwene L ‖ forþe þ. w.] that wiln forth L] Ryghtfull causes to trauerse and trouble, [ (4, 10)] [ 535] [535 Rightwis L ‖ trauerse and] transgres L] To be forsworn on a boke for mede. [536 vpon L] Of conscience þey take so lytell hede; Whyche þyng to preue by exsamples full notable [538 thynges L ‖ example notable L] Of olde Isopus whylom wrote þys fable. [539 olde date L ‖ whylom fehlt L]

Hauyng thys conceyte set hit for a grounde: [ (4, 15)] [ 540] [540 and set L] By maner lyknes rehersyng in sentence [541 * By a maner L] He wrete, þer was whylom a gret hounde, [542 writeth L (ist wrete in C = writ, writeth oder für wrote verschrieben?) ‖ that ther L] Whyche toke a quarell by hatefull violence [543 toke] to L] Agayns a shepe simple of innocence, [544 of] and L] Whyche stood alone voyde of all refuge, [ (4, 20)] [ 545] Constreynyd by force to apere afore a iuge. [546 a] the L ‖ Der übrige Teil des Blattes leer C.]