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<p>1 revision</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{header2<br /> | title = Venus and the Hen<br /> | author = Aesop<br /> | section = <br /> | previous = [[Aesop&#039;s Fables]]<br /> | next = <br /> | notes = Translated by [[Author:William Caxton|William Caxton]] (1484)<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Of Iuno / of Venus / and of the other wymmen<br /> <br /> Before the goddes and the goddesses men muste euer preyse chastyte / for it is a worshipful &amp; an honest thyng to a woman to hold hyr contente with a man alone / but Venus for her disporte &amp; for to dryue aweye the tyme / wold Interprete the sayenge of the hennes / wherfore she demaunded a henne whiche was in her hows / but at this tyme I shal kepe my tongue / and no ferther I shall speke therof / For many wyse men whiche haue sene and redde alle this book vnderstanden wel alle the nature of hit / And by cause it is lycyte &amp; honest / And that we alle ben bounden to kepe the ladyes in theyre worship and honour / also that in euery place where hit shalle be possyble to vs we ought to preyse them / we shalle now cesse to enquere ferther of this matere / and Historye / whiche we shalle leue in latyn for the grete clerkes / &amp; in especial for them that wylle occupye theyr tyme to studye and rede the glose of the sayd Esope</div>

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