keepe him company in his prayers, and to teach him the good and holy commaundements of the lawe. And forthwith he gaue himſelfe to faſting and prayer. So that this holy and ſimple man thought he would haue loſt his wittes, and thus with his cloked deuotion by little and little he made himſelfe maiſter of the houſe and riches. One night this ſtowte theefe caryed awaye a great ſumme and value, cleering the houſe of all that was ought woorth (as a Barbers baſin) and bought him a Hogge. This holy deuout man ryſing in the morning, and miſſing all his neceſſaries, hee wondered with himſelfe, but moſt of all hee muſed that all his golde, ſiluer, and things of value were ſhrunke awaye. Yet hee had ſuche a heade that he ſtraight thought vppon the malice of his vnhappie ſcholler, lamenting much the loſſe of this ſtrayed, or rather altogither loſt man. But to heare of him agayne he wandered through many a countrie, carefully ſeeking vp and downe, at leaſt to meete with him, though hee might not recouer his goodes, and it grieued him fore to be in the middeſt of his ſorow, for the loſſe of the one and the other. This good man being in good hope yet, met in the waye with two wylde and ſauage Gotes, which were at deadlye foode togither, and tried it out by the heades for lyfe and death, to which fraye came
