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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

of my person Although many Princes and Lordes in such case thinke themselues yll serued yet is it méete and right that the good bée rather ledde by vertuous instinct then caried away from the right through displeasure receyued I sée thou willest mée good am sure that the loue thou bearest me maketh thee ielous of the maintenance of mine honor and estate Yet it hardly entreth into mée and me thinketh it straunge saue that thou tellest it me I could hardly thinke it much lesse beléeue it that such wicked thoughts should bréede in the Bulles brest to me since by proofe I knowe him in many things both good faithfull and honest in his seruice and hée knoweth besides my goodnesse to him howe I receyued him courteously into my Court and that he may saye hée is made Lorde in maner of my kingdome Sacred Prince sayd the Moyle I beléeue in déede that the Bull thinketh himselfe well intreated of your Maiestie and good cause he hath so to doe and that hée meaneth no hurt to your royall person for any displeasure he hath receyued of you or for any conceyued hate he hath towards you And I thinke sure he taketh not vppon him so fowle an enterprise to other ende but bicause prouinder pricketh him maketh him lustie to fling and play the wanton and for that he is well he cannot sée it and that maketh him to deuise some mischiefe wéening to haue all in his hands saue the very title of the King and that this little hauing all the rest which is also the most is easie for him to obtaine I suppose your Highnesse hath vnderstoode me nowe take what way you list I knowe well ynough that an Asse loden with golde may sléepe more safely amongst théeues than a King that trusteth trayterous officers and gouernours appointed for the state And let your Maiestie bée sure of this that that which the Bull can not compasse nor reach vnto by his owne force and others he will certainly practise by deceyt vsing such meanes to bring him to it as the Flea did to bring the Lowse to that passe he brought him to and that he had long pursued as followeth A tale of the Flea and the Lowse and how the Flea was reuenged of the Lowse WHy what shall wée doe then if the case stande as thou settest it forth what way shall we take I will heare thée willingly and follow thy counsell with this condicion though that in this interim my Realme and person be not touched or that I sustaine perill or losse INuincible Lorde to haue any member festered and rankle and plainely to see that if it be not cut off it will corrupt and infect the whole bodie and in cutting it off the bodie remayneth safe and free from infection what is he so madde that will not cut it off The shepeherde findinge in his flocke I speake more resolutely a scabbie and infected sheepe doth not only cut off his legge but riddeth him out of the waye bicause he shall not infect the flocke SVre this sodeine matter maketh me much muse sayde the Lion. For one way draweth me to loue him and that is the credit I repose in him the long experience of his good gouernement his vertues and wisedome and bicause I neuer founde cause in him to detect him any way The other thing that presseth me much is feare which is a great burthen I would faine therefore finde a waye betwéene both that shoulde be betwixt loue and hate or betwixt feare and trust and this it is To call if thou thinke good the Bull and to examine him well and streightly And if I finde him any thing at all blotted with this humor I will chastise him with banishment but neuer imbrue my handes in his bloud procéeding lyke a great and noble Prince This determination lyked not the Moyle as he that was sure to liue like a wretched beast and that his malice by this deuise should appéere and streight he aunswered the king Your Maiestie hath euen lighted right on the most stranglingst morsell and the hardest Nutte to cracke if you meane to follow that you haue propounded For he careth not to throwe at his enimie that beléeueth he is not seene but standeth to beholde if it light right But if he beware once he is seene then for shame he sticketh to his tackle and followeth on his blowe least he shoulde be counted a foole and Coward both in his doings And by such like meanes I haue oft times séene a little sparckle kindle a great fire O my Lorde he that fayneth he hath not bene offended maye at his ease and leysure be reuenged Contrarie to those that neuer bring any thing to passe that they would when they spit that out with their tongue that they thinke in their heart Therefore I am determined if your Maiestie will like my opinion to worke another and peraduenture a better way I will home to his house and as a friend I will féele him to the bottome and grope his minde and he as my verie friende also and that assuredly trusteth me will laye himselfe open to mée I am sure of it Such passioned mindes will easilye breake out at the first and they cannot kéepe it in but out it must They are besides that great boasters and vaunters For they thinke they stande in déede in that degrée and termes of reputation and honor that they imagine themselues to be in and they make large promises and builde Castels in the aire and at euery worde they saye they will make thée great and bring thée into fauor and when time serueth thou shalt sée what I will say and doe both It will not be long to it Well well I know what I say So that with such lyke Phrases and deuises it shall procéede rightly And thus in these traines appéere yet tokens euident inough and very notable If he haue not capacitie and iudgement to conceyue mée and that he euen crosse not my meaning I that haue an ynckling of the thing already I will be with him in euery corner I will not misse him an ynch If he rayse men what order he hath giuen and whether his house be armed or no yea and I will drawe out the matter ye shall sée finely out of his naughtie fantasticall head And if he go so priuily to worke that I cannot sée him where he goes nor know what he doth as I am sure I know perfitely all his practises I will bring him to your Highnesse and when hée shall appéere before you you shall easilye finde him For his heade is not without feare and his sight very dull and he will not come to you with that chéerefull countenaunce he was woont to looke on you before He will be verie suspicious and not continue in a tale and I know your Grace shall perceyue his malicious and spitefull practise by many tokens euident ynough And what knoweth your Grace whether the penne of his hart will

daungerous pathe Euen so it may be sayde of him which followeth his owne appetite and lyking gouerning himselfe thereby and not as he ought with reason and good order leaning to these worldlye experiences which euer desireth that that is profitable but follow alwayes in déede things that are hurtfull A man of such life and gouernement we may compare to him that knoweth good meates light of digestion and the grosse ill and heauie yet ouercome with desire taketh that that is most hurtfull and so being hurt himselfe alone is the cause of all his yll EVen such a man is he whome affection subdueth He vnderstandeth and is learned and able to decerne troth from falshoode and yet will not put in proofe the true profit nor once follow and desire knowledge and wisedome We might bring this man in thexample of him that hauing his sight good and perfite shutting his eyes would needes be ledde by a blinde man so that both they falling into a diche were drowned and miserably died Euery man will condemne him for a foole and worse than mad that hauing his sight good and without blemishe that might haue seene the daunger and scaped it and of mere foolishnesse would not Therefore euerie wise and discrete person must continually labour to reade and to vnderstande that he readeth and must then teache it to as many as desire to knowe it and to doe the good workes of the knowledge he teacheth that euery way he may showe the wonderfull profit of his doctrine for in this case he may not be like vnto a Well or Spring which without any profit to it selfe quencheth the thirst of all beastes The wise man is afterwardes bounde when he is growne to the perfection of learning to teach and instruct those that knowe not Prouided euer that he can master himselfe and subdue his affections For to a wise man three things are pertinent to wit Knowledge Richesse and Mercie And of all things a man must chiefly beware of reprouing his neighbour of that fault he himselfe is guiltie off That he be not likened to him which hauing a Perle in his eie found fault with the element that it was alway clowdie not considering the blemish of his eie Yet greater doubtlesse is our offence when with our neighbours hurt or detriment we winne commoditie to our selues As falleth out many times which this example following sheweth vs. The deceyt lighteth on the deceyuers necke TWoo friends hauing a great mount of corne in a Garner vndeuided they fel to parting it leauing to eche his portion a part howbeit both in one Garner still so that they could not erre to choose eyther heape But bicause in déede the one heape was greater than the other hée which had the lesser thought to steale the bigger and so by deceit to be reuenged of Fortune that had allotted him the least part Vpon this he went to the Garner determining to steale it that night and bicause he would not misse of his purpose in taking the one for the other he cast his cloke ouer his fellowes heape being the greater that he might the easilier knowe his owne in the darke being vncouered Not long after came to the Garner also the other honest partener to looke to his heape to see his deuided part and when he sawe the loue of his partener to him supposing simply he had couered his heape of corne for good will he bare him that it should receyue no dust as one that would not be thought vnthankfull nor come behinde his fellow in curtesie thus he sayde to himselfe Oh this man is to kinde to mée that to couer mine leaueth his owne heape bare And so taking the Cloke off his heape cast it on the others and couered it as his was requiting his curtesie with like good will little suspecting the intended deceyte but rather reputed his friende ciuile and full of humanitie At night his false friende counselled with a théefe and tolde him his intent saying if thou wilt goe with mée this night I will bring thée to a place where we shall haue a good bootie of Corne as much as we can both carie away with vs And thus agréed togithers thervpon they went both to the Garner where these two heaps of Corne laye and this partener the théefe groping in the darke to finde the heape his Cloke laye on laying handes on his Cloke supposing he had met with his fellowes heape hée gaue it in praye to the théefe hée had brought with him labouringe both to loade themselues and so betwéene them they conueyed the whole heape and wéening they had stollen from the other honest man founde at length he was théefe to himselfe The next morning very earely the two companions accordinge to appointment went togithers to the Garner to carie away eche other his portion as it was deuided betwéene them And he that had done this feate séeing his parteners part whole and vntouched and his owne gone like a man halfe deade for sorrow he heauily departed thence to his house and not a worde he spake bewayling and lamenting his wretched pretenced craft not daring once to open the theft to his friende who so much did trust him NO man therefore should deale so foolishly in thinges that haue no certaine ende and that are hard to bring to passe least that wearied with superfluous labor he cannot afterwardes exercise himselfe in thinges certaine and needefull All our workes and deedes ought rather to tende to profit vs in time to come then to serue the time present For if we abandon and forsake the insatiable and infinite desire we haue of this wretched worlde doubtlesse in the other worlde to come we shall feele no paine For who that serueth God deuoutly and with pure conscience and that desireth riches onely to supplie necessitie and to doe good workes him God doth prosper and guide in all his wayes And let no man dispaire though he be visited with ill hap sometime doing well notwithstanding For God manye times sendeth his blessing and increase vnwares to man and in an houre vnlooked for which he neuer thought would happen And heare in what maner The good and vertuous should neuer dispaire in aduersitie THere dwelled in a certaine Citie a man of a godly life and disposition who fallen into extréeme pouertie being ashamed to aske for Gods sake determined to prooue his friends and so he did And bewraying his miserie looking for reliefe and pittie founde nothing but hardnesse neither was there anye that once woulde looke vpon the necessitie of that honest conditioned man And thus repleate with griefe vexed in his minde he sorrowfullye repaireth to hys poore mansion And being layde at night in his bedde to take his rest the anguishe of his minde togither with famine woulde not suffer him to rest but kept him waking And bychaunce hearing a noyse about the house lystening diligently what it shoulde be hée knewe straight it was some Théefe hoping of a great

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