can I doe withall? Mee thinketh this thy miſhap is much like to that that happened to the holye man in the other mountaine by a theefe of that countrie: and bicauſe I would haue thee knowe it to ſerue thy turne another time, thou mayſt heare it.
In the top of Pirinei Mountaynes, harde to Pampilona, a Citie of Nauarra, in a mountayne called Verrucola dell amiraglio (where the Deuill left Malagigi the notable coniurer when hee brought him to the iourney of Ronciſualle) there dwelled a ſolitarie man giuen altogither to the contemplation of the high and celeſtiall things of God, who was viſited for his holyneſſe and doctrine of all the countrie. So it fell into the King of Canetteria his heade to go ſee him alſo, and thither he went. Who when he founde him deepe in iudgement of high myſteries (as he was moſt ignoraunt in baſe and mean things) he gaue hym great treaſure to buylde and ſuſtaine him without trauayle. An olde long practiſed and beaten theefe hearing of this richeſſe, imagined ſtreight with himſelfe to ketche two Doues with one Beane; and one nyght he toke his iourney towardes this holy man, and when hee was come to him, pitifully bewayling the yll lyfe he had led, he prayed the ſielye foole to
