[260] Orig. reads _as_. + _Of hym that made as he hadde ben a chaste lyuer._ lxxiiii. + A felowe, that toke vpon him, as he had ben the moste chaste and beste disposed man lyuinge, was by one of his felowes on a tyme taken in aduoutry,[262] and sharpely rebuked for it, bycause he prated so moche of chastite, and yet was taken in the same faute. To whome he answerde againe: O fool, doste thou thinke that I did it for bodely pleasure? No! no! I dyd it but onely to subdue my flesshe, and to purge my reynes. Wherby ye may perceyue, that of all other dissemblynge hipocrytes are the worste. FOOTNOTES: [261] Foolish. Used in this sense by Chaucer and Shakespeare. See the last edit, of Nares _in voce_. [262] I have already explained this word to signify adultery. The latter form appears to have been little used by old writers (though it occurs in the _Rule of Reason_, 1551, 8vo. by Thomas Wilson). Thus in Paynel's translation of Erasmus _De Contemptu Mundi_,1533, fol. 16, we find--"Richesse engendre and brynge forth inceste and advoutry." "_Hobs._ Mass, they say King Henry is a very _advoutry_ man. "_King._ A devout man? And what King Edward?"-- Heywood's _Edward IV._ Part I. 1600. + _Of hym that the olde roode fell on._ lxxv. + As a man kneled vpon a tyme prayenge before an olde rode, the rode felle downe on him and brak his hede; wherfore he wolde come no more in the churche halfe a yere after. At lengthe, by the prouocation of his nighbours, he cam to the churche agayne; and bycause he sawe his nighbours knele before the same rode, he kneled downe lyke wyse and sayde thus: well, I may cappe and knele to the; but thou shake neuer haue myn harte agayne, as long as I lyue. By which tale appereth, that by gentyll and courteyse entreatinge mens myndes ben obteyned.[263] For though the people cappe and knele to one in highe authorite, yet lyttell whoteth he, what they thynke. FOOTNOTES: [263] Orig. and Singer read _opteyned_. + _Of the wydow that wolde nat wedde for bodily pleasure._ lxxvi. + There was a ryche wydowe, whiche desyredde a gossyp of hers, that she wold get her an husband: nat for the nyce playe, quod she, but to th' entente he may kepe my goodes to gether, whiche is an harde thinge for me to do, beynge a lone woman. Her gossyp, whiche vnderstode her conceyte, promysed her so to do. Aboute iii or iiii dayes after, she came to her agayne, and sayde: gossyp, I haue founde an husbande for you, that is a prudente, a ware, and a worldlye[264] wyse man, but he lacketh his priuey members, wherof ye force nat. Go to the dyuell with that husbande (quod the wydowe): for though that I desyre nat the nyce playe: yet I wylle that myne husbande shall haue that, where with we may be reconciled, if we falle at variance. + _Of the couetous ambassodour, that wolde here no musike._ lxxvii.