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death_n	age_n	life_n	old_a	5,148	5	5.6715	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20800	The. xi. bookes of the Golden asse conteininge the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius, enterlaced with sondrie pleasaunt and delectable tales, with an excellent narration of the mariage of Cupide and Psiches, set out in the. iiii. v. and vj. bookes. Translated out of Latine into Englishe by VVilliam Adlington.; Metamorphoses. English	Apuleius.; Adlington, William, fl. 1566.	1566 (1566)	STC 718; ESTC S122394	168,878	272

your selues vppon vs that doo you no harme what thinke you to gaine by vs you dwell not in caues or dennes you are no people barborous that you should delight in effusion of humaine bloudde At these woordes the tempest of stones did cease the storme of the dogges vanished away Then one standinge on the toppe of a great Cipresse trée spake vnto vs saying Thinke you not maisters that we doo this to the intent to rifle or take away any of your goodes but for the saluegarde of our selues and family now a Goddes name you may departe away So we wēt forwarde some wounded with stones some bitten with dogges but generally there was none whiche escaped frée ¶ How the Shepeherdes determined to abide in a certaine woodde to cure their woundes Cap. 34. WHen we had gonne a good part of our way we came to a certayne woodde enuironed with great trées compassed about with pleasaunt medowes wheras the shéepeherdes apointed to continew a certaine space to cure their woundes and sores then they satte downe on the grounde to refresh their werie mindes and afterwardes they sought for medicines to heale their bodies some washed away their bloud with the water of the runninge riuer some stopped their woundes with sponges and cloutes in this māner euery one prouided for his owne safety In the meane season we perceaued an old man who séemed to be a shéepeherde by reason of the goates and shéepe that fedde roūd about him Then one of our cōpany demaūded whether he had any milke butter or chéese to sell To whom he made answeare shaking his head saying Doo you looke for any meat or drinke or any other refection here know you not in what place you be therwithal he toke his shéepe draue thē away as fast as he might possible This answere made our shéepeherdes greatly to feare that they thought of nothinge els butto enquire what countrey they weare in Howbeit they sawe no maner of persone of whome they might demaunde At length as they weare thus in doubte they ●erceiued an other olde man with a staffe in his hand very werie with trauell who approching nighe to our companie began to wéepe and complaine saiyng Alas maisters I praie you succour me miserable caitife and restore my neiphewe to me againe that by following a sparrowe that flewe before him is fallen into a ditche hereby and verely I thinke he is in daunger of death As for me I am not able to helpe him out by reason of my olde age but you that are so valiāt and lustie may easelie helpe me herein and deliuer me my boye my heire and guide of my life These woordes made vs all to pitie him And then the yongest and stoutest of our companie who alone escaped best the late skyrmishe of dogges and stones rose vp demaūding in what ditche the boie was fallen Mary ꝙ he yonder and pointinge with his finger brought him to a great thicket of busshes and thorne where they both entred in In the meane season after y ● we had well refreshed our selues and cured our woundes we tooke vp our packes purposing to depart awaie And because we would not goe awaie without the yonge man our felowe The shepehardes whistled and called for him but whē he gaue no answere they sent one of their companie to séeke him out who after a while returned againe with a pale face and sorowfull newes saiyng that he sawe a terrible Draggon eating and deuouring their compaigniō and as for the olde man he coulde sée him in no place When they hard this remēbring likewise the woordes of the first olde man that shaketh his head and draue away his sheepe they ranne away beatinge vs before them to flie from this desert and pestilent countrie ¶ How a woman killed her selfe and her childe because her husbande haunted harlottes Cap. 35. AFter that we had passed a great part of our iourney we came to a certaine village where we lay all night but herken and I will tell you a great mischiefe that happened there You shal vnderstande y ● there was a seruaunt to whome his maister had committed the whole gouermēt of his house and was maister of the lodginge where we lay this seruaunt had married a mayden of the same house how be it he was greatly in loue with a harlotte of the towne and accustomed to resorte vnto her wherewith his wife was so highly displeased and became so ielous that she gathered together all her husbandes substāce with his tailes and bookes of accompte threwe them into a light fire she was not contented with this but she toke a corde bounde her childe which she had by her husband about her middle caste her selfe hedlonge into a déepe pitte The maister takinge in euill parte the death of these twaine toke his seruaunt whiche was the cause of this murder by his luxury and first after that he had put of all his apparell he annointed his body with hony and then bounde him sure to a figge trée where in a rotten stocke a great number of Pismares had builded their nestes the Pismares after they had felte the swéetnes of the hony came vpon his bodie and by litle and litle in continuance of time deuoured all his fleshe in such sorte that there remained on the trée nothinge els saue his bace bones this was declared vnto vs by the inhabitantes of the village there who greatly sorrowed for the death of this seruant then we auoidinge likewise from this dreadfull lodginge incontinently departed away ¶ Howe Apuleius was cheapened by diuers persons and how they loked in his mouth to know his age Cap. 36. AFter this we came to a fayre Citie very populous where our shéepeherdes determined to cōtinew by reason y ● it séemed a place where they might liue vnknowē farre from such as should pursue them and because it was a countrie very plentifull of corne and other victualles where when we had remained the space of thrée daies that I poore Asse and the other horses were fedde kept in the Stable to the intent we might séeme more saleable we were brought out at length to the market and by by a crier sounded with his horne to notifie y ● we were to be solde all my compaigniō horses were bought vp by gentlemen butas for me I stoode still forsaken of all men And when many biers came by and looked in my mouth to knowe mine age I was so werie with opening my iawes that at length vnable to endure any lenger whē one came with a stinking payre of handes grated my gommes with his filthy fingers I bitte them cleane of whiche thing caused the standers by to forsake me as beinge a fierce and cruell beast the crier when he had gotten a hoarse voice with crying and sawe that no man would bie me began to mocke me saiyng To what end stāde we here with this vile Asse this feble beast