Gentleman saide he gaue me no more thaÌ„ one yeres ReÌ„t of my Farme take heede said the Iudge that you make not a lie you were better to lie twice before some other than once before me Great presumptions lyes are dear wares I tel you in this CouÌ„try bicause my father was so loth to take this Farmers Fine for the Fine he gaue you it made me iudge that the same did not amouÌ„t to his Fine by a great deale bycause you required a quittaÌ„ce of my father wherby you wold haue the one discharge the other it shewed that the Fine receiued of my father was muche more than your Tenants which he shouâ—d repay to my father or els why should either you desire a quittance of my father or he refuse to make you a quittance therefore The presumptions are such which before I haue alleaged that it is almost impossible but that the greatnes of the Fine did allure you to let it to my father And beâ—â—ds that to tel you flatly my father hath be wrayde youre Fine to me which I am sure in this case would neither lye on himself nor on you therfore it is but a follie to conceale it for it was spoken before too manie now to be hid Therfore tel me truely and lye not for if you do you shal pay for a double lye which wil be smal to your ease what Fine did my father giue you to make him a Lease nay speake the truth and shame the Diuel the sum was too great for you to forget you were better tel truth to auoide the danger of lying than to tell a lye neuerthelesse the truth be knowen Then the Gentleman gaue a great sigh and said nothing Gentleman said the Iudge your holding of your peace is as good as a graÌ„t say either yea or nay for I am indifferent but this I tel you before the Fine is confest that he paid therfore it is but follie to go about to hide that that caÌ„not be hid answere me one way or other Then saide the Gentleman hath he confest it indéede he hath brokeÌ„ promise with me but séeing he hath confest he didde giue it I wyll also confesse I receyued it Howe muche was there of it saide the Iudge forsooth it was two hundred pounde in gold said he but if I had thoughte your father woulde haue kept his own counsel no better he shoulde neither haue had my Farme nor I woulde haue had his Fine I doubt that this great Fine sayd the Iudge went not without enhauncing of the Rent I praye you therefore tell me truely shoulde not my father haue paide you more Rent than this your Farmer doth no truely sayde the Gentleman and if you will not truste me I haue the counterpaine of the Lease here to shewe and with that he toke out of his bosome the Lease and shewed it to the Iudge wherein there was no more Rente to be paide then the auntiente and olde Rente whiche the Farmer confest to be true and then the Iudge espying the ende of a Paper sticke out of his bosome which was by the meanes of taking out his Lease The hanging out of a Paper brought out the truth saide to the Gentleman what writing is that that hangs out of youre bosome doth not that writing belong to your bargaine at which time he durst not aunsweare for feare of lying let me sée it I pray you saide the Iudge whereto the Gentleman was verye loth but there was no remedie the Iudge woulde néedes see it which when the Iudge had redde he saide to the Gentleman here is a great Bil of debt it séemeth hereby that my father oweth you a greate deale of money but I feare either you cannot or wil not tel wherfore he doth owe it you This is a verie straunge debt that is one xx yeares a paying I pray you tell me wherfore doth my father owe you thus muche as is contained in this Bill the summe is not so smal but that you maye wel remember what you sold him for it Well séeing you will not speake I smell wherfore it is Farmer saide the Iudge what Rent didst thou paye to this Gentleman euery half yere forsooth saide he I payde tenne Crownes at euery halfe yeare and at what dayes sayd the Iudge did you paie youre Rente Truly sayde the Farmer at Michaelmasse and at the Annuntiation of Marie the Uirgin Nowe I perceiue I gest truely saide the Iudge for it is manifeste hereby that this great Fine went not without enhauncing of the Rent for as much ReÌ„t as is to be paide by the Lease euery half yere so much and euerye halfe yere at the same dayes and times during the Lease is to be paide by this Bil which apparantly sheweth that this Gentleman hath rackt his Rent as much more as it was It is not for nothing that the Cat winketh when both hir eyes are out so here it appeareth what was the cause that you and my father were so loth to vndoe your bergaine and graunt If this great Fine and this raising of the Rente hadde not bene you woulde not haue bene so earnest against this your Farmer neither yet would you haue denied me my request as you did but now to be plaine with you wheras you thought that this Farmer was ouercome and vanquished by your witnesses and that he should lose his Farme it is fallen oute cleane contrarie for the witnesses that you brought to confounde him haue condemned you through Gods good prouidence Therfore that that I did was by policie to make you beleue you had ouercom this Farmer to fetch you further in and to see how you would haue vsed him if you had preuailed Your denying of my request hath gained you nothing for if you had gently enclined to my desire béen willing to shew this Farmer fauor at my request though he stode in no such néede of it perhaps I would not haue sifted you so néerees I did Thus you may learne that the graunting of a trifle at some time It is true is better than perfourming of a weightie matter at another time And nowe though you meante mischief to your Farmer God hath tourned it and muche more to your selfe You thought to haue vndone him by enriching your selfe but you haue not hurt him but shamed and empouerished yourself Though my fathers couetousnesse made him offer you such a Fine yet you should haue had more wit than to haue receiued the same O sir saide the Gentleman there was a great fault in him bicause he did offer it then said the Iudge as great a fault was in you bicause you did take it Then he said again If he had not offered it I should not haue taken it To whome the Iudge saide againe And if he had thought you woulde not haue receiued it he would not haue proffâ—ed it You are a Gentleman and as I vnderstand of good knowledge and learning whereby you
that boughtest this mannes â—â—rme sayde the Iudge hée chargeth thée déepely that thou knowest of thy conscience that thou doest owe vnto him tenne poundes A naughtie conscience Howe sayest thou doest thou owe it him of thy conscience or no And then hée sayde My Lorde of my conscience I owe it him not The one of you sayde the Iudge hath but a slender conscience Take héede my frende thoughe for wante of Writing or other testimonie thou mayest bleare mine eyes yet for all that thou canste not deceiue God which is the chiefe Iudge of all Though thou shouldest carrie this matter cleare and bée quitte of it before me thy earthly Iudge yet thy matter must be ripped vppe againe before Christ at the laste day the heauenlye Iudge who without either writing or witnesse doth and will then knowe the truthe quickly And then thoughe nowe by fraude thou deceiue this plaine dealing man of his ten poundes if hée finde that thou doest owe vnto him so much thou haddest bene better to haue giuen ten times more than thou owest him thaÌ„ to giue him one groate lesse than his due For I assure thée and truste to it that the euerlasting torments of Hell fire are prepared for the wicked and suche as defraude their brethren of their right Therfore if thou owe it pay it vnto him and driue not off till Christ the highe Iudge compell thée to pay thy debtes to God for then thou shalt be alwayes paying it in Hell and thou shalt neuer come out vntil thou haue paide the laste farthing which wil neuer be paide So that by defrauding this man of tenne poundes which is but drosse and earthlie riches thou wilt bereaue thy selfe of the kingdome of Heauen which is an euerlasting treasure Wherfore thou were better open the truth now willingly whereby Christ may be thy frende at the latter day than to haue it opened before Christ against thy wil then wherby he will be thy vtter enimie and committe thée to Hell fire to be a companion of Diuels for euer Therfore nowe tell me the truth doest thou owe him ten pounds or no My Lord said the fellow I owe him none for if I had ought him any he woulde haue had something to shew Well saide the Iudge seing this way wil not serue I wil go another way to worke and if it be founde that thou owest it as I doubt not but to sifte it out as I will vse the matter thou art like to smoke for dissembling with me and to pay dearly for euerie lie thou hast made Sirra said the Iudge to him that solde the Farme did not you make him a quittanie for the ten poundes he paide you Yes my Lord said he for he willed me to make him one for the receite therof and then I made him a quittance and sealed it and deliuered it before two or thrée honest witnesses Loe saide the Iudge the natures of these two are shewed herein for this man that sold the Farme of a good and honest nature did aske him no bil of debt for the ten poundes he had to paie him but the other missetrustfull of him that trusted him did require a quittance for the ten poundes he paide him Wel there is a great difference betwéen fraude and faithful meaning Where is that quittance said the Iudge that this honest plaine meaning man made you Forsooth my Lorde saide he I must néedes confesse that I had such a one but I haue lost it I perceiue saide the Iudge A false shift that there is something in it that wil rather make against you than with you for that you faine you haue loste it and all bicause you are loath to shewe it But seing you wil not shewe your quittance I wil make you shew it or else pay him his ten pounds againe which you say you paide him and then you had bene as good to haue paide him the ten pounds you owe him with your wil as to paie him ten more against your wil. We haue a law and an order here that al aquittances and General quittances with diuers other writings must be recorded and if the same bée not recorded the acquittance is of no force and it shall be lawefull for the partie that receiued the mony if he wil to claime it and receiue it again Now if you had such a quittance and the same not recorded then it is lawful for him to claime the ten pounds againe that you paide him if he will And if the same be recorded then we will haue it quickly out of the recorded writings And then the Iudge commaunded one of his Clearkes to search the Recordes therefore and with spéede to bring vnto him the true copie therof Which the Iudges Cleark did who serching the Recordes for the same quittance found it and brought it to the Iudge his maister which when he had viewed wel and red throughly he said I perceiue it was not for nothing A good way to try the truth that you had lost your quittaunce and that you were so loth to bring it to light here it is manifest that you paide this maÌ„ ten pounds but here is another clause doeth followe that quite condemneth thée which is that thou hast paide him ten pounds in part of paiment of twentie pounds my Lord said the craftie fellow that is more than I bad him and the other saide more than I willed him to doe but indéede I remember when he was beginning to write the quittaunce he asked me if it shoulde be a generall quittaunce and I said no and then he asked me if the ten pounds was in part of paymente of anye of the summe or not I tolde him then it was in parte of paymente of twentie pounds Send for the Notarie that writ the quittance said the Iudge and bidde him come to me with spéede so one went for him and brought him before the Iudge who confest the same words that the honest man had spoken before and though said the Notarie neither of theÌ„ willed me to write it yet I thought good to set it in for the better declaring of the truth if néed shold require thou hast done verie wel therein saide the Iudge and like an honest and wel meaning manne and as the matter falleth out A good Notarie it hath brought the trueth to light whiche a false fellowe here wente aboute to suppresse thou noughtie varlet saide the Iudge howe durst thou make such a manifest lye vnto me when I charged thée so vehemently on thy conscience to tel trueth but rather how durst thou presume to take it on thy conscience that thou oughtst him nothing before the maiestie of God that knew thy conscience But thoughe thou thoughtst to outface me and this honest man Marke thinking thy selfe sure that there was none to witnesse against thée yet God that will neyther be mocked nor outfaced hath brought both writing witnesse against thée my Lorde saide the
Notarie I read it before them both before it was sealed and deliuered and they sound no fault therewith the one sealed it gladly and the other receiued it willinglie This is both manifest and apparant said the Iudge for this fellow confest before that he had such a quittaÌ„ce of him which he would not haue receiued vnlesse he had liked it and it had bin according to trueth Therefore come hyther sirra saide the Iudge and stande neare that you maye heare your Iudgement for your two notable lyes that you made before me and for the defrauding of this man of his mony You shall according to our Law kéepe silence and speake neuer a word to any for the space of sixe monthes that is for either lye thrée monthes vnlesse you be required therto by some Ruler or Iudge for some waightie matter or cause you shal weare on your sléeue al the whyle an H. and an L for a Hurtful Lyer and yet you may say that I am a fauourable Iudge vnto you for if I had put thée to thy oth as I might haue done verie wel I knowe thou wouldst haue forsworne thy self which fearing I did not require thée thereto and then halfe thy goods shoulde haue bin lost which the King should haue had and thy tongue should haue bin cut out of thy head for a periured person Thus thou maist perceiue I haue vsed thée gentlye And then the Iudge saide to him to whoÌ„ the debte was due howe long is it since you firste required youre money of him Note this Iudgement forsooth my Lorde saide he two monethes and something more theÌ„ my iudgemente is saide the Iudge that he shall paye you your debte whiche is tenne pounds and for euery moneth since so muche as the debte is that is for euerye month tenne pounds whiche amounteth in the whole to thyrtie poundes This is my iudgement sée that yée performe it in any wise And the man vpon whom the iudgement was giuen was going from the Bar but the Iudge said sirra you must stay a little I haue another thing to say to you yet then he called before him the other man whoÌ„ he defrauded of his Farme and that put him in trust to buy it for him To whom the Iudge saide did you neuer desire to buy the Farme that this felow bought of whoÌ„ I gaue iudgement of late yes my Lord saide he I was verie desirous to buy it but I was sicke that I coulde not goe aboute it my selfe and I spedde therafter did you put no friend of yours in trust said the Iudge to make the bargaine for you yes forsooth my Lord said he who was it said the Iudge truly my Lord saide he euen this same man that bought the same Farme whom I requested for that I was sicke and not well able to goe and bycause I hadde a greater confidence in hym than in anye other of my neighbours to doe so muche for me to enquire of the manne that oughte the same whether he woulde sell hys Lease thereof or not saying I vnderstande that he meaneth to putte it awaye and bycause I dwel here where I haue no certentie and looke euerye daye to be putte out of it I will giue him for it as muche as it is worthe with reason and if you can not gette it vnder thirtie pounds I will giue it and rather than I woulde goe without it I will giue him more therefore I praye you saide I driue the bargaine for me as nye as you may make it vp for me before you come home againe if you can And then he promised me faithfully that he woulde doe more for me than that and he went thither and when he came home he tolde me that though before he was determined to sel it then he would in no wise depart withal were you the first that tolde him of it saide the Iudge yea my Lord saide he thereof I am sure wel saide the Iudge what house bought you then to dwel in forsooth my Lord said he within a while after he came vnto me and proffred me his Farme saying that he had another Farme promised him aboue twentie miles hence and so I for lacke of a house was constrayned to paye vnto him his owne price for his Farme whiche was fortie pounds thoughe it were not halfe so good as the Farme that he hath nâ—we for which as I vnderstande he paide but twentie pounds yea said the Iudge and if he might haue gone forwarde as he beganne he woulde haue paide but tenne pounds saying further this geare I feare will fal out but madly for it beginneth verie suspitiously How long was it after said the Iudge ere you entred into his house forsooth my Lorde saide hée a quarter of a yeare and more and when I was enforst of necessity to come thither to dwel he desired me to stay from coÌ„ming thither for one seuenight to let him remaine there so long for saide he I was disappointed of the Farme twentie miles hence wherof I told you but I hope to get another shortly and so I was content to lette him tarrie there for so long and when I came to dwel there at the ende of the Seuenight he had almost remoued all his goods and stuffe from thence and then I asked him where he had gotten a house so quickly marie neighbor said he I haue got the same Farme that you willed me to buye for you the Lease wherof I bought but within thys foure or fiue dayes And thus as he said hée gotte the Farme whiche at the first I desired him to gette for me Indéede saide the Iudge a man maye be in good hope of a house when alreadie he is sure of one of his owne I smel saide the Iudge this geare welynough A Iugler by his trinckets is easie to be knowen Then saide the Iudge to the fellow vppon whom lately he gaue iudgement tel me truely and lye not for lyes are so deare that you were better tel truth how long is it since thou boughtst the Farme thou now dwellest in whereat he helde his peace and spake neuer a worde he is driuen into such narrow roome said the Iudge that he can neither go backward nor forward for if he say he bought it when I thinke hee did then he bewrayeth himselfe if he say he boughte it at suche time as he tolde his neighbour that bought his Farme then he that solde it to him he feareth wil witnesse against him Wel séeing you will not aunswere me sayde the Iudge I will sée if another wil aunswere me tel me saide the Iudge to hym the solde him his Farme how long is it since he bought his Farm of you my Lorde saide he it is almost fiue monthes since for on such a day I receiued the tenne pounds of him for the same then sayde the Iudge to the other that bought the craftie felows Farme howe long doe you thinke it since you sente your saide
whitte Tel me sayd the Iudge what occasion had you to come to mée whome she answered saying It may please your Lordship to vnderstand that yesternight as I was walking in the streate a good man mette with mée who did not only giue me mony to relieue me and my daughter but also told me that he would speake to you concerning my cause and sute Then he sayd In déed one spake to mée and sayde that such a Rich man hath missused thy daughter and to complaine on him therfore was the onely cause of your comming hither at this time In déede sayde shée that is true therefore if it will please you to heare all the whole matter and howe he hath abused my daughter I will declare it as briefly as I can Tell it saide the Iudge and I will heare thée willingly for I am appointed to sit heare euerye bodies complaint that commeth hither Therefore be bolde to declar◠thy whole cause and I will both heare thée willingly and take thy parte in right most spéedily Then shée sayde The Lorde saue your life O worthie Iudge but sayde the Iudge doth not thy complainte tende altogither to the myssusing of thy daughter Yes my Lorde sayde shée Then it were more requisite saide the Iudge that thy daughter shoulde tell hir owne tale for none knoweth it better than shée That is true sayde the pore Woman And then the Iudge commaunded hir daughter to speake and to reueale all the truthe of the matter vnto him And then hir daughter sayde to the Iudge as followeth My Lorde this noughtie Riche and vnmerciful man which is my moothers neighboure walked of late through a Groue of his in whiche through my mothers commaundement I was gathering a fewe olde and rotten sticks to make my moother and me a fire at home for it was verye colde weather who when hée sawe mée hée was in suche a rage and furie with mée that my humble knéeling on my knées coulde not once moue him to forgiue me nor haue compassion on me So that he tooke and tyed mée faste vnto a trée in the same Woodde and suffered mée to bée there faste and woulde not vnbynde mée but lefte me there crying wayling and lamenting most pittifully and there did I so remaine all the whole night A tyrannous parte faste bound vnto the foresayd trée where I thinke I shoulde haue dyed through colde and for wante of foode if throughe the goodnesse of almightie GOD one had not come the nexte morning and loosed mée that hearde my pitifull lamentation mourning and crying At which time when I was vnbounde I was neither able to goe nor stande and then the man that vnloosed mée séeing mée in that pittyfull case being bothe a godlie and a mercyfull manne hée didde leade me home to my mothers house A godly man by little and little as wel as he could And for that hée perceyued my moother to be a very poore Woman he did then giue my moother mony to relieue hir self and mée withall Doest thou knowe the man saide the Iudge that thus did loose thée and leade thée home vnto thy mother Yea that I doe sayde shée and also where he doth dwell Then the Iudge saide vnto the poore woman I will fence for the man that thus hath myssused thy daughter and also for him that did vnbinde thy daughter and brought hir home whereby they shal apere before me at my next sitting in the open Court and in the meane space both you shall haue meate drinke and lodging in my house And then the pore woman and hir daughter humbly gaue him thankes Siuqila This was a godly Iudge in déede he respected and regarded that there was and is a generall Iudge in Heauen that will bée mercifull to all godlie and righteous Iudges on Earth and that wil so iudge the cruel vnrighteous affectionate and corrupte Iudges that they shall goe to the euerlasting prison of Hell where they shall remaine in endelesse tormentes without any fauour or mercie vnlesse they repent in time but what followed I pray you did the Iudge sende for them Omen You néede not doubte that whiche men when they came before the Iudge neither of them knewe wherefore hée sente for them at whiche time the sayde poore woman and hir daughter were priuily placed not farre off And then the Iudge sayde to the Riche man that had myssused the poore womans daughter I pray you tell mée where you were such a day and about such an houre of the same day Whereat the Riche man being something amased saide nothing You do well sayde the Iudge to take good aduisement for you know it is better especially in this place to speake the truth leysurely than to tel a lie rashly why doe you not speake sayde the Iudge Forsooth my Lorde sayde the Rich man I can not well tell I haue almost forgotten Then sayde the Iudge if I had asked you where you were a tweluemoneth or halfe a yeare since then you might rather forgette than remember it but séeing this is so lately not past thrée or foure dayes since it séemeth that eyther your memorie is verie euill or else that the matter which you then did goe about was not very good nor in any respecte commendable But I am of this opinion that if you had bin robbed of youre goods or your body wel beaten a quarter or half a yeare since you woulde haue remembred the day and the verye time of the day of the doing therof therfore plucke vp your wittes and remember your selfe well but take héede you lye not my Lorde said he I wil not lye as nie as I can And after that he had aduised himselfe a little he said my Lord I do not remember but that I was at home all that day then the Iudge saide I muste haue a flat aunswere whether it be so or no therfore if you saye it certainely I am aunswered And when the Riche man perceiued that there was no remedie but that he must certify the Iudge where he was at that time he said thinking that none could or would witnesse the contrary my Lord I am sure that I was at home al that day and neither road nor went frō home Wel said the Iudge I am aunswered and then he was carried out of the Courte vntil the Iudge called for him Then the Iudge commaunded one to go for the rich mans seruants whiche were but two in all and to bring them before him whyche was quickly done And thē the Iudge asked one of them whether his maister was at home all that day or not for it is tolde me that thy maister did beate a poore man at his doore suche a day and suche an houre for asking almes forsooth my Lorde saide his seruant he was at home all that day vntil a little before night but at that time he was not at home therefore they that say so do belie my maister how knowest thou that said the Iudge I
pâ—â—sumption Oh my Lord saide he giue not too much credite to the Gyrle for she of purpose no doubte â—ameth this matter againste me then saide the Iudge it may be that she may faine of you but I dare boldlye say she fableth not of hir selfe for here is one that witnesseth that she was abused My Lord saide the Riche man pleaseth it you to vnderstande that some noughtie disposed felow méeting hir there perhappes woulde haue misused hir who not able to get hir good wil and fearing least she should discrie him thoughte neither to kill hir wherby he was sure to be without daunger of the lawe neither to set hir at libertie wherby she should exclaime or complain of him presently And for that as it doth appeare it was something late he might be the more bold to doe it bycause afterwards if she did escape she should not very wel know him yâ—a thoughe she met him in the face to whomâ— the Iudge aunswered though the darke might make hir to forget him yet the light hath made hir to remember you but I praye you said the Iudge let me go thus far with you what decâ—sion hath the Wench to turne the greate 〈◊〉 of hir fâ—e into a smal faulte of hir selfe Do you think that if one had tied hir to a trée bicause shée would not suffer him to abuse hir woulde shée excuse him and saye shée was bounde to the trée for gathering of stickes Who wil think or once beléeue that a stranger or one that had nothing to doe therein would therefore so handle hir So that reason doth fully resolue mée that none woulde so extremely vse hir but onely the owner of the Wood. And nowe for that you are the owner of the Wood it is impossible that any other should so cruelly handle hir for gathering of wood but onely you that are the owner thereof O my Lorde sayde the Rich man she doth this I thinke of spight Canst thou make mée beléeue saide the Iudge that she caused hir selfe to bée tyed to a trée all a colde frostie night which was ynough to kill hir onely to spight thée withall or to bring thee to trouble Shée might haue found means to haue troubled thée with more ease to hir selfe But for as much as she complaineth that she was tyed to a trée and this man confesseth that he founde hir tyed to a trée and that she plainely affirmeth that you tyed hir to a trée and that you are owner of the Groue where she was so bounde to a trée therfore it can not choose but that you are the same man that tied hir to the trée And for the better manifesting of the matter you are taken in a trippe with your owne tale for you affirmed to me and that aduisedly that all that day you kepte your owne house and wente not abrode which I am able to say is a manifest lie for which you are like to pay full dearely for thy man hath confessed and sworne to the contrary O my Lord saide he my man mystaketh the day then saide the Iudge if he purposely haue tolde a lie then purposely he shall be punished for telling a lie but there is no reason why herein he should tel a lie for in this case he could gain nothing to tel a lie but auoid great danger by speaking of truth But you perhaps seing your selfe in a snare by telling a lie might shunne a mischief and by vttering a truth might be driuen to some danger And now bicause thou doest stande so stiffely in such a shamefull cause I haue another of thine owne seruants suche a witnesse againste thée that thou wast not onely from home at that time but also that then thou broughtest drye stickes from thy saide Groue to whome thou confessedst that thou tookest the same then from a wench saying she had béene better to haue gotten stickes or wood a myle off wherein thou toldest trueth for hir gathering of stickes there had like to haue coste hir hir life And when the wicked rich man hearde the Iudge speake these words as one confounded he fel on his knées and desired the Iudge to be good vnto him Siuqila And was the Iudge fauourable to him after he submitted himselfe Omen You shall heare howe fauourable he was vnto him Ah saide the Iudge thou crouchest when thou arte constrained and yéeldest againste thy wyl what Diuell didde be witch thée what spirite did incâ—â—se thée or what féende did enforce thée so cruelly to vse this pore gyrle for succouring hir selfe by not hurting thée thou couldest haue béene contente to haue giuen two or three loades of wood to some one that perhaps was warme ynoughe or that stoode not in néede of it and couldest not thou finde in thy heart to suffer this pore wench to gather a fewe stickes to warme hir selfe withall wherof she stode in great néede who makes thy wood grew but onely God and who giueth thée thy wealth but onely he And canst not thou spare out of thy great abundaunce of wood whiche thou canst neuer spende all thy life a handfull of stickes that other waies would rotte and do no good to saue the pore member of Christ from staruing If thou were a pore traueller by the way and very drye not able to buy thée anye drinke and shouldest take an Apple that were fallen from the trée whereon there were two or thrée thousande Apples to quenche thy thyrste withall wouldst thou be content that the owner of the Appels should tye thée to the same trée therefore all night yea thoughe it were in Sommer when the nightes are moste shorte and also little colde or none I am righte sure thou wouldest not nay thou wouldest thinke as thou mightest wel ynoughe that hée that should so vse thée were a cruel cut-throat Then what a wicked wretch an vnmerciful miser art thou that hast tyed this pore girle to a trée leuing hir there so bouÌ„d a whole Winters night yea and in most extreme colde for gathering a few sticks amoÌ„g suche a great number of thy trées to warme hir selfe withall how canst thou looke for mercy at Gods hande seing this poore girle hath fouÌ„d such vnmercifulnesse at thy hand Wel bicause thou such as thou can not finde in your hearts here to giue the poore wood to warme them here withal I am sure vnlesse they repent be more merciful the Diuell wil not be so niggardely to you but wil giue you fire ynough for nothing in hel to warm you withal Doest thou not remember that Christ spake a little short Sentence wherin consisteth the Law and the Prophets which is Whatsoeuer ye would that other should do to you do eueÌ„ the same to them And now bicause thou takest thy self to be a christiaÌ„ I hope thou hast done to this pore girle as thou wouldest she should do to thée Therfore accordingly I wil procéed in iudgement with thée But first A righteous iudgement bicause thou hast