149

+ _Of Corar the Rhetorician, and Tisias hys
scoler._ cxxxvi. 150

+ _Of Augustus and Athenodorus the Phylosopher._
cxxxvii. 151

+ _Of the frenche kyng and the brome seller._
cxxxviii. 152

+ _An other tale of the same frenche kyng._
cxxxix. 153

+ _What an Italyan fryer dyd in his preaching._
cxl. 155

TALES

AND

QUICKE ANSWERES.

+ _Of hym that rode out of London and had his seruaunt folowynge on
foote._ i.

+ There was a manne on a tyme that rode v myle out of London, and had
his seruaunt folowyng after hym on fote, the whiche came so nere, that
the horse strake hym a great stroke vpon the thye. The seruaunte,
thynkynge to be reuenged, toke and threwe a great stone at the horse,
and hytte his mayster on the raynes of the backe, who thought it had
bene his horse. He within a whyle loked backe and chydde his seruaunte,
bycause he came haltynge so farre behynde. The seruaunt aunswered: Sir,
your horse hath gyuen me suche a stroke vpon my thygh, that I can go no
faster. Trewely, sayde his mayster, the horse is a great kyckar, for
lyke-wyse with his hele right nowe[146] he gaue me a great stroke vpon
the raynes of my backe.

+ _Of hym that preched on saynt Chrystophers day._ ii.

+ A fryere that preached vpon a saynt Christofers daye, greatly laudynge
saynte Christopher, sayde: what a prerogatyue hadde he here in erthe in
his armes to beare our Sauioure! was there euer any lyke hym in grace? A
homely blount felowe, heryng hym aske twyse or thryse that question so
ernestly, answered: yes, mary: the asse that bare both hym and his
mother.

+ _Of the frenche man, that stroue with the Janway for his armes._ iii.

+ There was one amonge the Janwayes[147] that the Frenche kyng had hyred
to make warre agaynst the Englysshe men, which bare an oxe heed paynted
in his shelde: the whiche shelde a noble man of France challenged: and
so longe they stroue, that they must needs fyght for it. So, at a day
and place appoynted, the frenche gallaunt came into the felde, rychely
armed at all peces.[148] The Janway all vnarmed came also in to the
felde, and said to the frenche m