This is the table of the historye of reynart the foxe
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- This is the table of the historye of reynart the foxe
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- [Westminster :: William Caxton,
- 1481]
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- Foxes -- Folklore -- Early works to 1800.
- Folklore -- Europe -- Early works to 1800.
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"This is the table of the historye of reynart the foxe." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10638.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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iT was aboute the tyme of penthecoste or whyt∣sontyde / that the wodes comynly be lusty and gla∣dsom / And the trees clad with leuys and blossoms & the ground with herbes and flowris swete smellyng and also the fowles andbyrdes syngen melodyously in theyr armonye / That the lyon the noble kynge of all beestis wolde in the holy dayes of thys feest holde on open Court at stade / whyche he dyde to knowe ouer alle in his lande / And commanded by strayte conmyssyons and maundements that euery beest shold come thyder / in suche wyse that alle the beestis grete and smale cam to the courte sauf reynard the fox / for he knewe hym self fawty and gylty in many thynges aye••••s•• many ••eestis that thyder sholde comen that he durste not auenture to goo thyder / whan the kynge of alle beestis had assemblid alle his court / ther was none of them alle / but that he had complayned sore on Reynart the foxe·