+ _Of a picke thanke, that thought to begyle the
same moste prudent kynge._ xxiiii. 37
+ _Of Thales the great astronomer, the whiche
felle in to a ditche._ xxv. 38
+ _Of the astronomer that theues robbed._ xxvi. 39
+ _Of the plough man that wolde saye his pater
noster with a stedfast mynde._ xxvii. _ib._
+ _Of him that dreamed he founde golde._ xxviii. 40
+ _Of the crakynge yonge gentyll man that wolde
ouerthrowe his enemys a myle of._ xxix. 42
+ _Of him that fell of a tre and brake a rybbe in
his syde._ xxx. 44
+ _Of the fryer that brayed in his sermon._ 45
+ _The oration of th ambassadour that was sent
to Pope Urban._ xxxii. 46
+ _Of the ambassadour that was sent to the prince
Agis._ xxxiii. 47
+ _The answere of Cleomenes to the Samiens
ambassadour._ xxxiiii. _ib._
+ _Of the wyse man Piso, and his seruant._ xxxv. 48
+ _Of the marchant that made a wager with his
lorde._ xxxvi. 49
+ _Of the scrowes that the frier gaue out against
the pestilence._ xxxvii. 51
+ _Of the physition that used to wryte bylles
ouer nyght called resceytes._ xxxviii. 52
+ _Of him that wolde confesse him by a lybell in
wrytynge._ xxxix. 53
+ _Of the hermite of Padowe._ xl. 54
+ _Of the uplandissh man that saw the kyng._ xli. 56
+ _Of the courtier that bade the boye to holde his
horse._ xlii. 57
+ _Of the deceytfull scriuener._ xliii. _ib._
+ _Of him that sayde he beleved his wyfe better
than other, that she was chaste._ xliiii. 59
+ _Of him that paid his det with cryeng bea._ xlv. 60
+ _Of the woman that appeled from kynge Philip
to kynge Philip._ xlvi. 62
+ _Of the olde woman that prayd for the welfare
of the tyran Denyse._ xlvii. 63
+ _Of the phisitian Eumonus._ xlviii. 64
+ _Of Socrates and his scoldynge wyfe._ xlix. 65
+ _Of the phisitian that bare his pacient on hand
he had eaten an asse._ l. _ib._
+ _Of the inholders wyfe, and her ii louers._ li. 67
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