abſtinence of ſelfe will a while, refrayning to doe their office in giuing meate to the bellie: the bellie ſuffering lacked his ſuſtinance, the handes alſo beganne to leaue the ſkirmiſhe, and knowing then their lacke and hurt (for preſeruation of both) repenting themſelues, they returned to their office, and beganne againe to feede the mouth. And thus vnited both in one, they preſerued eche other. With this pretie tale he made the people ſenſibly to vnderſtand what became them, and how they ſhould behaue themſelues to their ſuperiours, for their muſt needes be Magiſtrates and inferiours, Maiſters and ſervaunts. An other likewiſe tolde a tale, that manye yeares paſt there was a Horſe vſed to feede in a goodly paſture, where hee alone was Lorde and Maiſter within himſelfe. At length by chaunce there came within his dioceiſe a mightie growne Hart, who tooke his herbage there as his right alſo, and did eate and feede beyond all reaſon or meaſure. Infomuch that this horſe diſdaining his beaſtly attempt, chaſed this Hart from the ground full many a time & oft. And perceyuing he could not for all that ouercome him, bicauſe his hornes were of as much force as his feete, he was madde for anger. It happened ſo one day a man came through this paſture, and paſſing by, the horſe
