neyther ſuffer any to ſpeake to him: ſo as hee is not to be delt withall by any. The ſhee Aſſe vnderſtanding the effect of their talke by dyſcretion, ſtepping in betweene them both, ſhe would needes make the thirde, and ſaye hir minde too. He that is well cannot keepe him ſo. The Lyon taketh you both for hys friendes, therefore ſeeke not I praye you that that pertayneth not to you. What a goodyere haue you to do to meddle in his matters? are yee out of your wittes, or wearye of your liues? or what wilbe, attende you on Gods name to your buſyneſſe. For hee that is buſye in that he knoweth not, nor toucheth him not, and that concerneth not his Arte; if any miſchaunce lighteth on him, he hath but that he hath iuſtly deſerued. As I will tell you hereafter a tale of an Ape, and what hapned to hym, bicauſe he woulde needes meddle with a craft he had no ſkill of. But before I beginne to tell you I will make a little digreſſion with two wordes.
It hath bene an olde and true opinion, that for the ſeruante to ſearch his maiſters doings it is both naught and vncomely too: but to deſire to know the Princes cauſes or affaires is of all other yet moſt daungerous. And naturally who ſo is giuen to be a ſearcher out of other men's doings, he can neuer be reckened good nor honeſt. Now giue eare vnto the tale.
