of his horrible committed murder So the Queene mother and he resolued to kepe it secret bicause they would not the Asse should haue anye hurt knowing hee was a good honest playne foolishe beast In the next morning betimes the Queene mother went to the Court to see the Kinge hir sonne and finding him perplexed and in heauy case she sayd vnto him What aylest thou my sonne that I see thee thus troubled and that these many dayes I sawe thee not mery If it be for any thinge thou hast lost assure thy selfe that neyther sighes nor sobbes will once restore it thee agayne This inwarde griefe doth vexe thy minde feebleth thy bodie and tormenteth thee much I see But yet giue it not waye so farre as thou canst not call it backe againe Impart at least thy deepe conceyued griefe vnto thy mother and familier friends such as best doe lyke thee If any helpe at all there bee wee all will put to our helping handes But if still thou doste burst out thus in teares and sighes thou wilt rather showe thy selfe a woman than a man For so doe women vse for euerye trifle when they liste to bring forth a teare Perhappes it grieues thee thou hast slaine Chiarino Out of doubt I can assure thee thou defiledst thy selfe in innocent bloude for without any crime faulte or liuing offence to thee thou laydest thy handes vpon him His mothers wordes at length drue these from him It is an olde saying and I haue heard it oft Thinges lost can neuer bee recouered and this thing goeth to the heart of me Naye see mother if I haue cause to sorrowe that since his death and before I neuer hard so much as an yll worde of my faithfull Chiarino Sure if he had ment yll to me it could not haue bene but I shoulde haue smelt it out and it woulde haue come to mine eares one waye or other And therefore to thee mother alone I confesse my faulte and I maye tell it thee the only worker of his mischiefe was his cruell enimie the Moyle which with practises inuentions and deuises hath supplanted me and killed him moouing mee to wrath Ah my sonne nowe I must needes tell thee agayne thou hast bene betrayed and deceyued both and this a trustie friende hath tolde me The Lyon would faine haue knowne of whom but the Queene mother would by no meanes at that time tell him ought But this she did assure him that there was no newe inuention nor alteration in hys Realme that shoulde offende him in worde or deede and bade him seeke well and in short time he should knowe all So the King since he coulde at that time get no more of his Mother determined to assemble all the beastes of his Realme and to call them to Parliament to consult vppon this matter and so he did WHen this generall Counsell was called where all the great Lordes of his Realme and the wysest of the Commons with all the souldiours were assembled he also sent for his Mother Shée looking all the beastes in the face that were present missing the Moyle caused him streight to be sent for So he came forthwith But when he was come to the Pallace and saw the Parliament house furnished with all the Colledge of beastes then he knewe the Princes indignation when looking vpon him earnestly he saw his colour chaunge and that his conscience gnawed him for the death of the Bull. Now the Moyle knowing himselfe guiltie began to whet his wittes and drawing néere to certaine of the great Lordes that stoode rounde about the Quéene mother hée sayde vnto them Lorde what ayleth our noble King what is the cause of this conuention here how commeth it he is thus malencholy What is there any sodeine or straunge accident happened in the Court that we may knowe the cause the Counsell hath bene called very sodainly The Quéene mother aunswered streight Thou néedest not marueyle ywis at the Kings heauinesse For thou knowest well ynough hauing giuen him the cause his sadnesse which with thy swéete sugred wordes hast giuen him bitter gall Tell me I pray thée canst thou tell who was cause of the death of the most noble and worthie knight of our Court Was it thou perhaps But the Moyle as stoute as Golyas without any blushing aunswered streight NOw I know the saying which our olde auncient beastes vsed in times past is true and I am out of doubt of it That let one doe as much good as he can his rewarde I warrant yee shall be little ynough and that God onely is hee who rewardeth and giueth recompence for anye benefite or seruice done O what a marueilous matter is it that he that liueth well in this worlde cannot continue to liue well but is compelled to daunce after euery mans pipe to holde with the Hare and runne with the Hounde The true heart I haue alwayes borne to the Kinge thy sonne and sounde counsell which God I take to recorde I haue euer giuen him doe not deserue such rewarde For it is knowne well ynough that the Moyle his seruaunt hath deliuered him from many daungers and present death also and refused no traueyle for his safetie and that I make his Lordship iudge off Well I onely craue of his Grace but that hee will inquire of my life and doings For I knowe my proceedings will appeere better to him than is thought for and I woulde my troth and honestie were openlye knowen to the world And for my part if the least part of that were true that is spoken of me and that I were any maner of way to be touched his Maiestie may be assured I woulde not tarie an houre in the Court and much lesse haue come before these great Lords And besides that I woulde not thinke my selfe sure in any place of the worlde wheresoeuer I were if I had but once receyued suche a thought in mee and much lesse if I had commited the deede Therefore I pray thee noble Ladie lende not thy eares to the wordes of enuious persons nor suffer his Maiestie to laye handes on my innocencie For if that seeme a straunge thing to you this a fortiore were a wicked fact a fact without reason iustice and anye maner of equitie I doe not care to be counted wicked in that case if all the Court doe count me so For God himselfe knoweth well the troth in whome I only hope and am sure he will deliuer me from this suspition and daunger THis Moyle in his wordes séemed to be the best beast of the world and those that lyke straungers heard him and knew not his Moylish nature a vile traitour Moile a whoreson cankred Moyle that let a man kéepe him in the stable .xxv. yeares and make neuer so much of him in the end for a farewell and that on a sodeine when a man thinketh not of it he will yerke out behinde and put him in daunger of his life were very sorie for his trouble and did pitie his
so fantasticall a beast with so great barbs which somtime were a pale blew somtime a skie colour now chaunged from that to white and then to black againe he wondered to sée those sodeine chaunges and more beholding his swelling and raising vp his fethers putting forth that horne of fleshe he sayde he neuer saw before so goodly a woonder And talking a little with him hée founde him of a bigge voyce of fewe wordes but resolute so as hée made much of him And wote ye what thither came a number of beastes of his countrie vnderstanding of his captiuitie to raunsome him But he being high minded and reputing himselfe the chiefe Birde of the dunghill as true he was would neuer say he was a prisoner but that he was amongst the Phesants for his pleasure and thus despised their fauor and the helpe of them all On a time there came a friend of his to him and secretly offered to giue him that no man should know it so much golde as should redéeme him out of prison But he refused it and woulde none of it bicause he would not séeme to be a prisoner In the ende necessitie enforcinge him and remembring his case hée was contented to be counselled by that faithfull and louing friende of his and closely tooke the money that in fine doth all and payde it and so departed For if he had continued in that foolish reputation of him selfe still and had dwelled in his obstinacie he had perhaps dearely bought the price of his follye It may peraduenture séeme to your Maiestie that I passe the boundes of modestie if I shoulde open to your highnesse my meaning hereby I come as your Maiesties humble and faithfull seruant and true friend to tell your Maiestie that I am sorie to sée you go no more abrode a hunting a walking and sporting your selfe at your pleasure as you were woont but that you kéepe your Pallace stil with malancholie which was not your woont I knowe Well I stande nowe before your highnesse readie to spende my life and goods in your seruice and quarell and if I might knowe your griefe I make no doubt at all but I woulde labour so that your Maiestie should be satisfyed and lyke of my seruice If you be troubled for any matter concerning the state or any other thing of importaunce your highnesse muste impart it with a fewe of your faythfull seruants and such as you trust best And although they be of the meaner sort yet they maye serue your Maiestie with hartie looue and good will and doe their best indeuour I haue presumed vnder your Maiesties good licence to saye thus much bicause I recken my selfe to be one of the faythfullest seruaunts your Maiestie hath euer had or now retayneth THe Lyon as King of beastes and that knew before by the wilde Bores report the nature and propertie of this mightie beast the Bull mooued not a whit at these wordes but wiselye hid that inwardly which hee openly vnderstoode and with large wordes and new deuises fayned diuers his perticuler accidents saying that he was not well at ease and founde himselfe subiect to his ordinarye ague And thus the King and Moyle discoursing togithers a happie chaunce for the Moyle and an yll happe for the Lyon the Bull that was harde at the Court gate gaue three or fowre terrible lowes that the Lyon shooke agayne to heare him as one that was more afrayde now than he was before by reason of the great noyse and rebounde of his voyce and not able any longer to hide his griefe he sayde This voice so bigge and terrible runneth throughe my whole bodie and in counsell I tell it thee knowing thy troth and fidelitie to mee I promise thee I am afrayde of my Kingdome and my reason is this That seeing the voyce of this fearefull beast is so great as thou hearest it is lyke his bodie is aunswerable to the rest which if it be I am in no safetie And now without further ceremonie thou knowest the whole cause of my sodeine chaunge and feare therfore in this cause I would be glad to heare thy opinion and iudgement MIghtie Prince if no other noueltie or occasion haue caused you to refrayne your pleasures but this voice which I haue heard me thinketh it is but small and not to be accounted off Your noble courage should not be afraide of any thing before you know it and what it is and whether it be to be feared or not as I will let your Maiestie knowe by this tale I will tell you seruing for the purpose Of the Foxe and his foolish feare A Foxe with all his familie chaunged his hole and got him to another and harde by the same there was a little cottage where dwelled a .xxv. Muletters with their Moyles and euerye morning betimes they came to lade them You must vnderstande that the noise of these sundrie sortes of belles and other trappinges that they put aboute these beastes made all the countrie ringe with that mad noyse The Foxe hearing the sounde of thys yll fauored noyse ranne quickly to hide himselfe in hys hole where he lurcked still till the noyse was gone which was such that it feared the Pullen and scared him from his pray One day this Foxe being on the side of a hill hearde againe this fearefull noyse of belles and lifting vp his heade to looke about him there he sawe these blessed Moyles comming with their belles and laughing to himself was ashamed of his simplicitie The same saye I vnto your Maiestie that my opinion is that this your Maiesties feare is such a like fantasie and bicause your Grace should be informed with speede of this matter assuring your Grace to kepe your griefe secret I doe offer my selfe if it stande with your pleasure to goe abrode into the Countrye and to discouer the thing vnto you And so soone as I shall haue knowledge of the beast and of his qualitie I will forthwith aduertise your Maiestie howe it standeth what the matter is and how this geare goth about And you shall know it euen as it is I will not misse a iotte least you should be informed contrarie of some timorous beast taking one thing for another Therfore I besech you sir comfort your self and let him alone that knoweth it and thus hee tooke his leaue and trotted from the king The King highlye commended his counsell and aduice and willed him to dispatch that he had promised THis worshipfull Moyle was scant out of sight but the Lyon beganne to haue Hammers in his head and to imagine a thousande straunge deuises and grewe in Choler with him selfe suspecting and fearing both at one time and sayd Well what and he double with me yea and how if he beguile me with his cloked colour to doe me good sure his soothing words doe not like me mée thinketh he is to full of them May not hée tell him with the terrible voyce that I am afrayde of him and out of
bootie that went thus ransacking vp and downe So this poore man sayde vnto himselfe Thou hadst néede looke narrowlye if thou wéene to haue that thou séekest for Surely I will sée yet what feates these théeues doe worke when they come into such places where they finde naught The Théefe roming here and there busily searching and groping in euery corner founde nothing but a little pot with Meale and bicause he would not lose hys labour hée determined to drawe his string to ketch that little morsell and began to poure it out into the lappe of his cloke hauing in the cape therof great store of Iewelles and ready money which hée had stolen in an other house where he had béene The good poore man which till nowe was whisht and quiet to sée the ende of the Théefe perceyuing hys little discretion his hart rose against him considering the villanye of thys wretch that woulde not leaue him that sielye quantitie of Meale to sustaine him alyue withall and thought with himselfe it were better defend it in time to kéepe him from famine than to tarye looking for the late reliefe of his harde friends So in a great fury he leapt out of his bed and tooke him to his sword and hauing the same drawne in hys hande with a terrible noyse hée runneth to the Théefe Which bicause hée would not both lose his honesty and life togither at one instant leauing for hast to saue himselfe hys cloke in pawne with the Meale hauing no leysure to cast it on his backe he was forced to flye for life and let all alone This honest poore man then at his pleasure poured out the Meale out of his cloke and put it againe into hys earthen potte where it was before and thus sayd to himselfe a ha by Sainct Marie this geare goeth well I haue gotten a cloke to boote by the meanes to defende mée from the colde at least and putting his hande into the cape hée met with great riches and Iewels and happily lighted on those goods which he neuer hoped of winning that frō his enimie by force which his friends would neuer haue giuen him for loue I Doe not like in such a case to say as the common people doe that God prouideth liuing for euery bodie and that he will not see me lacke that that shall be necessarie for me so as I neede not to labor for my liuing for sure it is but a foolish phrase and vaine speach But rather I will conclude that euery man is bound to labor to procure his liuing he may not make any such cases presidents in which it pleased GOD to sende great riches without labor as in this For these are only the secrets of God we ought not to aske the cause of his diuine goodnesse The wise man therefore must endeuour himselfe to gaine that he may honestly and vprightly trusting always in almightie God that he will prosper his doings and giue him encrease seeking euer to keepe him selfe out of trouble and sorowe and not to do as the Doue which breeding hir Pigions about the house making them familiar with the same albeit they are monthly taken from hir and killed yet she leaueth not for that to returne to hir olde nest and breede yong againe though she know they shal be taken from hir We finde it written that God hath ordeined the end and terme of all things and that they can not passe Therefore say these wise men that he that worketh respecting the worlde to come lightneth the burthens and troubles of this frayle life But he that reposeth his trust in these worldlye thinges and is wrapped in the same doth waste and consume his yeares A man ought to labour in these three things bicause he hath neede of them to wit. To knowe to keepe the lawe and the good statutes thereof The seconde to procure things necessarie for mans life And the thirde that his woorkes be pure and cleane with himselfe and among others Then he must beware and withdrawe himselfe from foure other mortall and damnable The first is to be negligent in his art or science The seconde to contemne that the law commaundeth The third to credit all things lightly The fourth to denie knowledge For he that will be reputed wise in his doings must first consider well what he taketh vpon him and if he neede counsell let him aske it of a faithfull friende When he happeneth to haue great matters in hande let him not goe about them rashly but first way the importance thereof That he be not likened to one which being out of his waye and going on still is the farther of the place he would go to And also compared to another which hath but a little hurt in his eye and by continuall rubbing of it he maketh it incurable A man must feare the diuine iustice inclining him selfe to that that is good and doing that to his neighbour he woulde haue done to himselfe helping him in all daungers as he woulde be holpen him selfe And to conclude this our worke he that meaneth to vnderstande it must order his life according to the lawes and institutions of vertue as showeth these wonderfull and learned examples and sententious authorities The Argument of the Booke WHat tyme there reigned in Edon so manye Royall crowned kings amongst the rest there was a King called Anastres Castri who chose for chiefe of all his Courte one Berozias whome hee made high treasorer of all his Realme a man right noble in his deedes and rich of possessions him he loued and trusted so much that hee put his princelye person and whole affaires of his Realme into his handes It happened one daye there was presented to the king a Booke in which was written many goodly dedes and secrets and amongst the heape this was one Howe that in India were marueylous hie mountaines in which there grewe certaine sortes of herhes and trees which if they were knowen and confected afterwards in a certaine kinde they should drawe out of that precious composition such a remedie as therewith they might raise to life again the dead The king no sooner read this wonder but he burned straight to knowe the troth thereof wherefore in haste as soone as might bee he dispatched Berozias and bade him hie him thither commaunding him to see if he coulde finde it true And bicause it was a hard and painefull enterprise he furnished him with golde and siluer not onely sufficient but more than needed that he shoulde not lacke Then he deliuered him his letters of recommendation to all those kings of India praying them to further this worthie man in his noble attempt purposed to good ende Berozias licensed nowe of the King to depart furnished with money and letters went into that countrie and arriued in India presented straight the king his maisters letters by meanes wherof he was receyued of the Magistrates as was pertinent to the Imbasie of so highe a Prince And his message deliuered
not write all his thoughts in his forhed as many times it falleth out vnhappily contrarie to the disposition of his thought that hath offended TRuly faith hath left hir habitation on the earth and bountie reigneth no more in any lande neyther doe I thinke your wisedome can doe more or lesse than the heauens and celestial motions doe dispose you to Lorde what a marueylous thing is this that to come to fame and renowne by degrées of honor it bringeth a thousand daungers with it We neuer or seldome doe well when we followe our owne humor or counsel And he also that out of the bookes of the ignoraunt taketh forth any sentence to serue his turne must of necessitie repent him when he séeth his folye All the Stories of the worlde affirme that a lame man can neuer go vpright The Sages also agrée that the highest places are most daungerous to clyme Therefore it is best euer to beare a lowe saile not to hie for the Pie nor to lowe for the Crowe THy talke brother Moyle sayde Chiarino the Bull me thinketh is verye troublesome and ydle and without any maner of reason It seemeth a folde of wordes that the angry hart discouereth and that hee is not in good peace with hys maister How say ye aunswere me but to this O My good Chiarino thou art inspired with the holy ghost the Deuill is within thée thou hast so rightly hit me It is true the King is angrie and suspecteth somewhat but not thorow me I assure thée nor by my meanes Now thou knowest verie well the promise I made for thée and the beastly othe I tooke which bindeth me in déede to my worde and let it go as it will sure I will not breake my promise with my friende that I loue for anye respect in the worlde let the worlde runne on whéeles as it list Therfore I will tell thée if thou hadst not bene warned of it before And harcken how Two Gotes my verye friendes and of great iudgement came to sée me weening to bring me pleasant newes not knowing that we two are tyed as it were by the nauels togither being both as one in friendship And they tolde me for certaintie that the Lion our King is marueylous angrie that he smoked againe at the mouth making such verses as the Cattes doe when they go a catterwawling in Ianuarie and in that furie he spit forth these words Euer when I sée that Bull before me I am ready to fall for anger An vnprofitable body and no goodnesse in him at all brought into the world but to fill his paunch at others cost I can not be well he doth vexe all the partes of me he doth so much offend me Well I will take order for this well ynough and sith he doth me no seruice by his life I will profit my selfe by his death at least When I heard these words spoken thou mayst imagine whether my heares stoode vpright or no and I could not hold but I must néedes say Well well such Lordes in faith they are lyker Plowmen than those they represent I sée they stie the Hogge to fat him vp and so to eate him O this his ingratitude and crueltie I cannot hyde it and his so great beastlynesse togither hath taken mée by the nose as if I had met with the Mustarde pot For those good qualities of thine for that league that is betwixt vs although I were sure of his Graces indignation and bicause me thinke thou art betrayde I could not choose but come and tell it thée So that good Chiarino thou art great and olde ynough looke well to thy selfe thou néedest not be taught thou art wise ynough and there an ende Thou art past a Steere and a Bull full growne nay rather a fat Oxe But hearest thou me Gods my bones not a word for thy life for if thou doest all the fatte lieth in the fire and the pottage maye be spilt and cast on the Moyles backe CHiarino stoode a while on the ground like a mased beast as one that had bene drie beaten being fronted with so malicious a deuise Then he layde his hande on his heart and bethought him of all his businesse and matters as of his gouernement office liuing aucthoritie and regiment and knowing himselfe as cleere as a Barbers basen he hit the matter rightly imagining as it was that some had wrought knauery agaynst hym and sayde Well go to there is nothing breedes more occasion of mortall hate than the vyle and slye practises of the peruerse and wicked Our Court is full of enuious persons which stirred vp perhaps with spite to see the Prince fauour and lyke my seruice being a coresey to their heart to abide it doe wickedly practise and deuise such mischiefes They seeing as I say the graces and benefites the Prince bestoweth on mee making mee honourable and heapyng great thinges vppon mee doe procure by indirect meanes to make his Maiestie turne his copie me to chaunge my wonted maners Sure when I loke into the matter and aduise it well it is me thinkes a thing not to be credited and it makes me not a little to wonder that hys Grace without cause is thus deceyued yet in the ende truth I knowe wyll take place God will not long suffer such practises Neyther Lawe wyll in any wyse permit that a man shall haue iudgement before he be heard Since I came first as a beast into his Highnes seruice I neuer did any thing that my conscience shoulde accuse me in But yet I haue as great cause to bewayle my myshaps come to me as he that putting himselfe to the sea and might haue gone safe by land was thrown on a rock and drowned and all through his owne seeking All they which busie themselues thus in Court and run from table to table making themselues great with this man and that man still whispering in their eares must notwithstanding that the Prince rewarde them or that he bee very well serued of them and lyke them looke to bee touched at one time or other and vnhappilye to fall into the Princes disgrace and perhaps to remaine so a good whyle out of fauour And this onely riseth by these double reporters and tale bearers or by the enuie of Courtiers which is mother of all vyce and iniquitie I dare boldly shewe my face euery where for anye offence I euer did the king And if I had committed a fault throughe ignoraunce and not of wyll me thinkes I should not be punished neyther for the one nor the other The counsell that I alwayes gaue him hath euer fallen out well and to good purpose And if perhaps they haue not all taken such effect as they ought he must thinke Fortune will play hir part in these worldly things And this I saye for purgation of my vpright and honest meaning to his royall Maiestie I am sure the Kinge will but proceede with iustice following the steppes of the iust the which will laye
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 â—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