all this while had hearde the Aſſes long diſcourſe, replyed ſtraight and thus he ſayde.
O I perceyue your meaning well ynough (good brother Aſſe) and I knowe I take yee right. If this holye man had ſerued God and not caſt his whole minde on this worldlye pelfe, he had not had that loſſe he hath, nor bene troubled as he is. If this carren Bawde had beene at home at hir houſe ſtill, ſhe had kept hir noſe on hir face. And that other Bawde to, if ſhee had not minded to haue killed the Cocke of hir yong Henne, ſhe alſo had not died. Laſtly the theefe had not ſuffered death if he had let the olde mans goodes alone: and my ſelfe (to ſay truly) ſhoulde not ſuffer nowe ſuch griefe, if I had but onely followed mine owne buſineſſe. I graunt that if I were as I was at the firſt, I would not once ſtirre a foote to meddle in anye bodies matters but mine owne. But well, well, what remedie now? ſince I am in for a Birde, and cannot get out, and being ready to burſt for ſpight I beare the Bull that he is thus made off, and ſet vp: by the Maſſe I will ende it one waye or other, by hooke or crooke, or it ſhall coſt me the ſetting on, runne dogge, runne deuill. Sure as a clubbe I will rayſe ſome ſlaunder of him, to eaſe my hart burning withall, and to bring him if I may out of credite. And this
