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A16131	The morall philosophie of Doni drawne out of the auncient writers. A worke first compiled in the Indian tongue, and afterwardes reduced into diuers other languages: and now lastly englished out of Italian by Thomas North, brother to the right Honorable Sir Roger North Knight, Lorde North of Kyrtheling.; Fables of Bidpai. English.	Doni, Anton Francesco, 1513-1574. Moral filosophia.; Bı̄dpāı̄.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?	1570 (1570)	STC 3053; ESTC S104622	91,288	193

at his feete hee asked him forgiuenesse for Gods sake and put himselfe into his handes promising he woulde restore him his yron agayne and make him amendes for all his losses And thus hee came by his sonne agayne which otherwyse hee should neuer haue heard of THere was a faire woman in loue with a Pothecarie and shee coulde neuer haue leysure bicause hir husband kept hir streightly once to speake with him or with any others to let hym knowe it One night hir husband euen sodeinly being verye sicke was compelled for present remedie to send his wyfe in haste to the Pothecaries So thither she ranne with al speede and in steade of returning quickly with the medicines shee whipped at a trise vp into the Pothecaries chamber to conferre with him of secret matters you know what and as shee was running vp shee cast hir handkircher with hir money downe on the shoppe bourde to the Boy and bade him make ready the medicine in the meane whyle The Boye that had an eluish witte vndidde hir handkircher and toke out hir money and pretily tied it vp againe hauing filled hir handkircher with the dust of the streete of purpose to mock hir to let hir vnderstand that they that came in haste for sicke folks did not vse to sport them at leysure on that fashion and so laid downe hir handkircher againe on the bourd where he found it When this woman had well paide the Collector vpon hir receit and that she saw shee had bene somewhat to long in hir account she came down from the Pothecarie snatched vp hir handkircher and ran home as she had bene scared with some yll thing But finding hir husband sleping the extremitie of the paine hauing left him she sate downe softlye by the beddes syde and opening hir handkircher founde hir money turned into verye earth and dust And euen at that instant hir husband awaked who bicause he knew not how long he had slept he could not tell whether his wife came quickly againe or taried long and casting his eyes on the dust and earth which shee was looking on as shee that knew she was mocked he asked hir What dust and baggage is that thou hast there what are ointments and medicines made of that fashion his wife streight found his malice and aunswered foolishly I running hastilye from certayne that were fighting in the streetes my money slipt out of my hande and being very darke I sought to take it vp and so with my handes I tooke all that I coulde finde thinking with my selfe in taking vp the dust to get vp my money too but wo is me it is sure all gone and with that burst out in teares The husbande simply beleeued hir and giuing hir other money sent hir thither againe and so with this second commoditie she fully accomplished hir desyre and swetely payde the hire of hir pleasure WHy then doest thou thinke with other new and straunge deuises yet to occupie the Kings heade I besech God he may once pay thée home But I would aduise thée looke well to thy selfe For thou shalt finde great difference betwéene such a beast as he is and another foolish little beast that will easily beléeue thee Vnlesse thou wouldest saye to me that bicause thou hast done the most thou shalt haue the least To this I replie That one paye payeth all And a little theft hangeth vp the théefe for many a great robbery I haue sayde to thée for this time and now farewell The fourth part of Morall Philosophie QVEL CHE MI MOLESTAVA ACCENDO ET ARDO Anno. 1570. The fourth part of Morall Philosophie shewing the ende of the treasons and miseries of the Court of this Worlde ALthough yee fynde many good reasones spoken vnder the shadow and colour of beastes without reason yet ye are not to maruell a whit for we also that represent reasonable beastes do oftentimes things with out reason and discretion both And thys is excellent to to see beasts liue and worke as men But howe brutishe a thing is it to see men lyue and gouerne themselues like brute beastes Ye must also note in this Treatise one thing that like as men sometime say thou or you worshipful Honorable Noble or Lordship and so forth and doe in deede many times mysse to giue to eche man his right title dignitie as they ought and is fit for eche mans calling and vocation euen so these beastes also for in the ende ye knowe them to be but beasts do erre many times speaking false Latine saying thou for you and maister where they shoulde say seruaunt Therefore you may not recken of such scapes nor loke after them though ye see them ●traye a little out of the waye and take a Goslinge for a Goose and a Crabbe for a Whale For it is an olde rule that both men and beasts will fault in many things THe Lyon therefore did amisse to kill the Bull suffering him selfe and his iudgement to be abused and ouertaken by the deuilish and subtill practises of the trayterous Moyle In somuch as when his choler was ouer and that he had wreaked his anger of him cruelly putting the guiltlesse beast to death he then to late looked backe on his bloudie déede and repented him of his rage knowing he had not done well to kill so wyse a subiect and so graue a counseller His conscience griped him at the hart to thinke he had no lawfull cause to vse such crueltie to him Such inwarde thoughtes drawe déepe and touche the quicke and can hardly be holden in and kept secrete So that the Kinges heart burning thus out he burst a fewe wordes which made the Moyles eares glowe as that péece of wicked flesh that alwayes gaue attentiue eare and looked to be payde home So that vpon a sodeine to take awaye these thoughtes from the King and that he should not thinke to much vppon them besides that to continue him still in his errour he ranne to the Court and downe he fell on his knées before the Kinge and with all humilitie he sayd Most mightie and noble Prince thou hast brought thy desires now to an ende The Gods that day did blesse thee in which they gaue thée honorable victorie when thou ouercamest so great and stronge an enimie The worlde victorious Prince woondereth that thou hauing I meane cause to reioyce art so sadde and full of pensiuenesse Oh sayde the Lyon when I thinke of the cruell and violent death of Chiarino without cause I am ready to eate my fingers for sorrow And continually I thinke of the great wit he had of his graue and prudent counsell indowed besides with many noble gifts and maners And to conclude I must tell thée plainely I cannot comfort my selfe nor be in quiet when I examine the cause of his death For many things runnes in my heade to perswade me that things were otherwise than I tooke them and that he had wrong But nowe I knowe that that my father sayde so

time also of it so there was no water to be had any where but onely a little spring in the toppe of the Mountayne called Carcobite At that time there lay by that spring a braue and fierce Lion which as we poore beastes went to the water to quench our thirst set vppon vs and deuoured vs or at least slue vs So that he made a Butchers shambles greater than anye Butcher maketh at Christmas against any feast Fame blewe forth this straunge death and cruelty so that the beastes compelled to assemble dispatched Ambassadors to the Lyon and offered composition to giue him daylye some praye to satisfie him with and that they might not all die for lack of water The Lion accepted the condicion sticking to their offer as one that had aduised himselfe well consideringe that if he had not done it they had all dyed for thirste and hee for famine and therevpon agreed The beasts drue lots and on whome the lotte fell hee went his waye to gyue himselfe in pray vnto the Lion. So long these lottes continued that at length it lighted on the Foxes necke to be swallowed vp of this deuouring Lion which seeing no remedie but die hee must at least as he thought he deuised to reuenge the death of the rest to free his owne And forth he runneth apace vnto this Lyon and prostrating himselfe at his feete beganne to enlarge his olde and faythful seruice done heretofore to his auncient predecessors and tolde him also how he was sent Ambassadour from the company of the beastes to signifye to him a straunge happened case euen at that instant And this it was That the lot fell on a fatte Wether to come to paye his tribute and by the way another straunge Lion met him and tooke hym quite away saying that hee was farre worthier to haue the Wether than you and that prowdely hee woulde make you knowe it If you meane to maintaine your honor I will bring you to him and there you shall determine it betweene you by the teeth and nayles The Lyon madde at this little suspectinge the slye Foxes wiles and craftes was ready to runne out of hys wittes whan the Foxe beganne a newe My Lorde he hath dared to saye with such arrogancie that he will chasten you well ynough and let you knowe you doe not well and that you should do better and more honourably to goe into the fielde and there to get praye than to tarye by the fountayne looking that other shoulde bring it vnto you and as it were to put meate into your mouth And at the last he sayde plainly you were but a slouch and sluggardly beast Come on come on sayd the Lion shew me this bolde and daungerous beast bringe mee to him where he is without any more adoe The Foxe that knewe a Welle where they drue vp water with ropes that the beastes could not drink of it brought him to the Welles syde and sayde Sir the Lion your enimie is within the Welle He lustily leaped vp streight vpon the Curbe of the Welle and seing his ymage in the water he fierslye cast himselfe into the Well supposing to haue encountred with the Lyon his enimie by meanes whereof hee plunged himselfe into the bottome and drowned streight Which newes brought vnto the beasts auouched for troth they ioyfully imbraced this craftie recouered Foxe Therfore said the Asse thou thinkst thou goest in clowdes handlest thy matters in such secret that they shal not be knowne But if through thy spight malice the Bull come to his death what hast thou done To hurt him that is the bounty and goodnesse of the world it were to great a sinne Thinkest thou the heauens beholde thee not Beleeuest thou thy naughtynesse is hidden from Gods secrete knowledge O maister Moyle thou art deceyued thou knowest not what thou doest GOod brother Asse say what thou list I am selfe willed in this I tell thée and out of doubt I will bring him out of the Kings fauor or I will die for it and tell not me of honestie or dishonestie Tut a figge I am determined Happie man happie dole Sure I will trie my witte and sée the ende and vttermost of my malice The thirde part of Morall Philosophie QVOD MOLESTIVS PATIOR TACEO Anno. 1570. ¶ The thirde part of Morall Philosophie describing the great treasons of the Court of this Worlde I Can not too muche exhort you good Readers to take some paine to continue the reading of this Treatyse knowing how much it wil delight and profit you hauing somwhat vnderstanded also by that yee haue read before beside that ye shal vnderstand in reading this that followeth Where you shall know how much a wise Courtier may doe a double man whose ende was aunswerable to his naughtie minde and lyfe Which God graunt maye come to all such enuious and spitefull persons that in Princes Courtes and thorowe Christendome delyght in so vile an Arte and to commit so detestable treasons And now giue attentiue eare and you shall heare Beholde the wicked practises and deuilish inuentions of a false trayterous Courtier THis worshipfull Moyle when he hadde reposed himselfe a fewe dayes and had liuely framed this treason in his head hée went to the Kinge and shewed him by his lookes that hée was malincholye pensiue and sore troubled in his minde The King that sawe this perplexed beast and dearelye louing him woulde néedes knowe of the Moyle the cause of his griefe Whom this subtill Moyle finely aunswered and with these wordes Most puissant and mightie Prince I haue euen striued with my selfe to hide the cause of my inwarde sorrow which in déede is so much as it can be no more And albeit I haue bene many dayes in comming to your Maiestie seeking to ease some part of my trouble yet I could neuer finde any deuise or meane to release my heauye and wofull heart of any one iote thereof And this is onely growne O Noble Prince of the great loue I beare your Grace bicause it toucheth not onely your highnesse in person but therewith the whole state of your Princely Monarchie And I that am your Maiesties vassall and subiect and a louer of the conseruation of your Realme and Kingdome am bounde will I nill I to discharge my bounden dutie to your commaunde Truely the trembling of hart that I haue suffered hath bene extreme night and daye continuallye vexing and trormenting me when I haue thought of so daungerous a case The thought that pricked mée on the one side was to doubt that your Maiestie woulde not credite me bewraying to you the daunger and not disclosing it I had not discharged the dutie of a true subiect and faithfull seruaunt to his Lorde Compelled therefore to open as is the dutie of euery seruant all that that any way may fall out to the hurte and preiudice of the Maister I come most humbly to signifie to your Grace the case as it standeth A verie faithfull and

traueyling by the way togithers founde a great bagge full of Golden wedges and so ioyntly togithers they agreed to take it vp determining to carie it to the Citie and to lay it vp safe in their lodgings But when they were come to the walles of the Citie they altered their mindes and one of them sayde to the other Let vs deuide the treasure that eche may carie home his part and doe withall as he thinketh good The other that was resolued to steale it and to haue it al to himself meaning to ease the good honest man of his part aunswered ex tempore for his profite Mee thinketh good brother it is not meete that our happe should be common and the friendship perticular but lyke as we met in pouertie so let vs ioyne in richesse Therefore for my part I will not deuide it but we will enioye it friendly togithers and the good happe that lighted euenly vpon vs Howbeit for this time if thou thinke good let vs take a peece out to serue our necessitie with to defraie housholde expences and other extraordinarie charges and for the reast it shall not be amisse if it runne in common betwixt vs and we will hyde it in the darke in some secrete place so as we maye from time to time alwayes as we nede it take of it at our pleasures The good sielye man I will not saye foole did not thinke of his pretensed subtiltie and that hee went about then lyke a false Knaue to deceyue him but tooke him for a playne meaning man lyke himselfe and sayde he was contented it should be so So for companye they tooke eche of them his burthen and the rest they safely buried vnder the roote of an olde Elme which the poore neyghbours that dwelled by called vile Knaue and so with the little burden of their necessarie expences ech of them repayred to their lodginges Within three houres of the same night the Companion that gaue counsell to leaue it abrode went to the place of the hidden treasure and secretly caried it home with him When tyme had consumed the honest mans money hee went to the theefe his partener and sayde to him Brother I woulde gladly haue the reast of my part of the golde that remayneth behinde let vs goe therefore I pray thee togithers as wee togithers did fynde and hyde it and we will bring it home betwixt vs for I assure thee I am in great neede Of mine honestie well sayde quoth the theefe his companion we are happily met for I was euen nowe thinking of that thou tellest me and I promise thee I was comming to thee of the same errant But now thou art come in fayth welcome thou hast saued me so much labor come on gowe let vs take our horses and awaye wee will not dwell long about this matter I trowe we will handle it so nimbly thou shalt see and then we shall liue merilye without anye care or thought and neede not feare robbing Now when they were come to the vyle Knaue the Elme so called where they had buried their treasure beinge a great and hollow tree they began to digge for it but in faith they might dig vnder the tree till their hartes aked as deepe and as farre as they listed for the treasure was flowen The theefe then played the Harlots part rightly that weepeth and lamenteth to the honest woman and beganne to tell him there was no more fayth in friends and that loue was lost Trust that trust lyst for by the Masse I will neuer trust agayne And when hee had often repeated this hee beganne to throwe awaye his cappe to crye out and beate himselfe that he was lyke a madde man nay a very bedlem in dede His fellow that was no naturall though he were somewhat lyke a Mome woulde not bee lowted so but rather laughed to see his knauerie and crafte thinking notwithstanding that he had stollen it as he had in deede but yet hee stoode in doubt laughing still Then the theefe raged like a beast as if he had had reason on his syde and sayde None no none but thou traytor theefe and villen as thou art coulde steale this The siely man that of both had cause to complayne all hope taken from him to recouer his part in steade of accusing him it stoode him in hande to excuse himselfe and to sweare and forsweare saying I cannot tell of it I saw it not I touched it not neither did I once think of it till now But tut al would not serue nor staye the theefe but hee cried out more and more and that alowde and called him al to naught Oh traytor oh slaue and micherlye theefe who but thou knew of this What man alyue but thou could once haue layde hands on it Tarie a little by Gods passion I will tell my L. Mayor of thee I will doe thy erraunt trust to it and I trowe he will set thee where thou shalt see no Sunne nor Moone a good while Harken after THis brawling and scolding continued a good while betwéene them in the ende they went both to the Mayor who after longe cauillations intermissions paremptories exigentes termes vpon termes fauors promises agréements prayses compremises wagers and a number of other such lyke conceytes and toyes perceyued his tale had neither head nor foote Then sayd my L. Mayor to picke out the core of this matter when ye two hid this treasure were there any others with you or were yee two alone togithers The Knaue that had occupied his hands as nimbly as he that playeth on the Phife answered streight as if he had bene cléere and honest in the matter My Lorde and if it please your Honor with your graces fauour the trée it selfe and you were there and sawe it would witnesse the matter plainely For we both I am sure put it betwéene the rootes of the trée and therefore I beleeue it will showe you the hole which the théefe hath digged If God be iust I knowe hée will make the trée tell and as it were poynt with a finger to him that stale it and showe you of him Sir of him that standeth here before your Lordshippes goodnesse and my worshipfull Maisters lyke a steale Counter nowe for out of doubt he stole it My L. Mayor that had many times put his finger in the fire before as one well acquaynted with such lyke matters and that coulde spie day at a little hole sayd well then ye stande vpon the testimonie of the trée and séeing ye doe so both you and I will be at the doing of it God willing and I will sift it out to the vttermost I warrant ye feare ye not They putting in sureties for their apperaunce and a daye appointed for the matter were dismissed the court This determination liked the théefe of life for he had streight deuised a mischiefe to blind my L. Maior withall But here I wil make a little digression He that doth his things without aduise counsell

same night howe the Asse reprooued the Moyle his brother The Lyon sent to the Libbard and commaunded his officers they shoulde vnderstand particularly the Moyles case and to dispatch him roundlye AL the beasts got them into the Parliament house and euery one tooke his place according to his degrée and sate them downe and the house being set there was brought before them in chaines this solemne traytor the Moyle And when he was come before the presence of such a sight of Asses and fooles the Libbard standeth vp speaketh Right honorable it is yet fresh in memorie that the King killed the poore innocent Chiarino so that from that time hitherto his Maiestie hath not bene quieted in his minde that hée put him to death by the false accusation and enuie of my Lorde the Moyle His Maiestie therefore hath liked to call vs to Parliament that euery one of vs should witnesse the troth if we knowe or haue heard any thing of his doings in what maner he did it what Arte he vsed with whom he practised and by whom he was assisted in this great treason to bring his wicked minde to purpose Euery one of vs is bound that knoweth ought to vtter it for the preseruation of the Realme and his Maiesties most royall person And then by iustice it is méete such traytors shoulde be punished and the good rewarded by meanes wherof the good may liue vnder his Maiesties reigne and gouernement with safetie and the yll be rooted out and cut off from the common weale Euery one looked other in the face and helde their peace The vnhappie Moyle perceyuing that euerie bodie was ashamed to take vppon them to tell so yll a tale cut off Fortune by the waste euen at that pinche and stepped to the matter himselfe rising vp vpon his féete being set before and boldly sayd these words Therefore my Lordes take no fantasie in your heades that is not honest for so yll woulde come of it and take not vpon you any thing that you are not well informed off least yours bee the shame and losse Let euery man remember his soule and let him not say that he knoweth not but to affirme that he hath seene I am very well contented with that Sure it were yll done my Lordes for anye man to speake that he knoweth not certainely and assuredly and the wrath of the Gods with such lyke yll lucke as mine would be poured vpon them and their lyfe and this none but I knoweth it better The maister Cooke of the Kinges Kitchin as fatte as a Hogge hearing this brauery of his to enforce his credite he tooke hart vpon him and emboldened himselfe notwithstanding his nobilitie and beganne to speake in presence of them all and thus he sayde RIght Reuerent and Honorable audience ye are very well met in this place Our olde auncient fathers that wrote many bookes of Phisiognomie of the which I thanke the King I haue greased a good number bicause I studied oftentimes in the Kitchin do tell vs many things and gaue vs diuers tokens to knowe beastes and men whereby we knowing them to be good or bad they should accordingly be rewarded or punished Id est I meane so to practise with the good and to flie the companie of the euill So it is yea marrie is it in faith I am sure of it I. Nowe for that I haue studied and according to my skyll I tell yée my Lordes I can not dissemble I finde our solemne Moyle here to haue manye yll partes in this matter which showe him in all and for all to be enuious false and a traytor leauing out that he is verye cruell and wickedly bent besides And ye marke him he euer looketh hier with his left eye than his right and his nostrels he turneth still to the right side with his eiebrowes verye thicke and long of heares and continually he looketh on the grounde which are manifest tokens he is a traitor and all these signes looke ye on him that list ye shall sée him haue them rightly I warrant ye The Moyle séeing the Swyne groyne with so yll a grace although he was euen almost grauelled and out of countenance yet he turned to him and replied MY Lords if it were true that this malicious Swyne and greasie verlet here before yee all doth tell yee that the heauens shoulde place signes in vs as a necessarie cause of wickednesse then streight assoone as we sawe any beastes brought forth with those peruerse lines and marks eyther they were forthwith to be punished or put to death that they should not worke such wicked treasons and effectes and fewe besides that should bee borne that the most part of them at the least were not marked with these signes that he his goodly bookes doe imagine I knowe not if his doctrine shall be of such authoritie receyued amongst you that it shall condemne my goodnesse and pure workes Sure this worshipfull beast is deceyued and doth as they that see an olde woman present a yong woman with any thing or deliuereth hir some letter with anye pittifull showes streight without touch of brest not knowing no further they take hir for a Bawde My worshipfull Hogge shoulde knowe thyngs better before hee be thus bolde and saucie to speake in this presence But none is so bolde as blinde Bayarde I see Thou weenest to poynt at me but thy selfe it is that is poynted at and thou marke it well Thou supposest to detect me and to open my defectes and doest not looke vpon thy selfe what thine owne doe showe thee But harken to this tale then tell me how thou likest it OVr forefathers and elders sacked a great Citie had the spoyle of all that was in it and put all to the sworde saue olde men and women and little children of all sortes In tyme these little ones grew and bicause they left them nothing men and women went naked hyding only their secrets and priuities with some thing One day there came to the towne an olde countrie Cloyne to sell woode and hee brought with him his two daughters wherof the one went plainely to worke without any ceremonie showing such marke as God had sent hir and the other comely couered it wyth leaues as well beseemed hir The people began to say to the vnmoseled Mayde oh shame of the world fie for shame hyde hyde hyde The olde Cloyne bicause he woulde not haue that Maygame behinde him turning him reuiled euery body that spake and was as madde as a March Hare and leauing him selfe bare gaue hir his furniture to hyde hir shame Then they were all on the iacke of him and reuyled him to badde His first daughter that was couered seeing hir father bare sayde vnto him Lo sayth she ye haue made a good hande nowe had not you vene better haue holden your peace and to haue kept your owne priuities close as they were at the first This tale I haue told for thee maister Cooke of the