=So.= I will tell you, bycause I went not to Rome, with that minde, and after that sort, other commonlie goe to Rome, euen of set purpose to retourne woorse, & so doing they want none occasions when they come there, to be as they purposed. But I went thither in the companie of an honest vertuous man, by whose aduise, in steede of a bibbing bottel, I caried with me, a handsome little booke the new testament of _Erasmus_ translation. =Lu.= Of _Erasmus_? And they saye he is an heretike and an halfe. =So.= Why hath the name of that man come hither also? =Lu.= None more famous with vs. =So.= Haue you euer seene his persone? =Lu.= Neuer, but in good fayth I woulde I might, bycause I haue hearde so much euill of hym. =So.= Perhaps of them that be euill themselues. =Lu.= Nay truely, euen of reuerend personages. =So.= What be they. =Lucres.= I may not tell you that. =So.= And why so I pray. =Lu.= Bicause if you should blab it out, and it come vnto their eares, I should loose no small part of my lyuing. =So.= Feare thou not, thou shalt speake it to a stone. =Lu.= Harken hither in thine eare thẽ. =So.= A fonde wench, what needeth it to lay mine eare to thine, seing we be alone? except it were that God shoulde not heare it. Oh lyuing God, I see thou art a religious whore, thou doest thy charity vpon Mendicants. [Sidenote: _Mendicant Friers._] =Lu.= Well, I get more by these Mendicants & simple beggers, than by you riche folke. =So.= So I thinke, they spoyle and prowle from honest matrones to cast at whores tayles. =Lu.= But tell on your tale concerning the booke. =So.= I will so doe, and better it is. Therein Paule taught me a lessõ, who being indued with the spirite of truth could not lie, that neyther whores, nor whore haunters shall inherite the kingdome of heauen. When I had reade this, I beganne to consider with my selfe in this wise. It is a small thinge, which I looke to be heire of by my father, and yet neuerthelesse rather I had to shake hands with all wanton women, then to be set beside that inheritance, how muche more then doth it sit me on, to beware y^e my father in heaue doth not disinherite me of that far more excellent inheritance, for against mine earthly father, which goeth about to disinherite me, or to cast me off, the ciuill lawes doe offer a remedie, but if God list to cast of, or disinherite, there is no helpe at all. Wherevpon, I foorthwith vtterlie forefended my selfe, the vse and familiaritie of all euill disposed women. =Lu.= That is if you be able to lyue chaste.