The v^{th} chapter is about DOBISSERS. These beggars (STIRNENSTÖSSER, _i.e._ spurious anointers) go _HOSTIATIM_ from house to house, and touch the peasant and his wife (HANZ und HANZIN) with the Holy Virgin, or some other Saint, saying that it is the Holy Virgin from the chapel,—and they pass themselves off for friars from the same place. _Item_, that the chapel was poor and they beg linen-thread for an altar-cloth (_id est_, a gown [CLAFFOT] for a harlot [SCHREFEN]). _Item_, fragments of silver for a chalice (_id est_, to spend it in drinking [VERSCHÖCHERN] or gambling [VERJONEN]). _Item_, towels for the priests to dry their hands upon, (_id est_, to sell [VERKÜMMERN] them). _Item_, there are also DOBISSERS, church-beggars, who have letters with seals, and beg alms to repair a ruined chapel (DIFTEL), or to build a new church. Verily, such friars _do_ make collections for an _edificium_—viz. one which lies not far below the nose, and is called St. Drunkard’s chapel. _Conclusio_: As to these DOBISSERS, give them nought, for they cheat and defraud thee. If from a church that lies ij or iij miles from thee people come and beg, give them as much as thou wilt or canst. +Of Kammesierers, or Learned Beggars+. The vjth chapter is about the KAMMESIERERS. These beggars are young scholars or young students, who do not obey their fathers and mothers, and do not listen to their masters’ teaching, and so depart, and fall into the bad company of such as are learned in the arts of strolling and tramping, and who quickly help them to lose all they have by gambling (VERJONEN), pawning (VERSENKEN), or selling (VERKÜMMERN) it, with drinking (VERSCHÖCHERN) and revelry. And when they have nought more left, they learn begging, and KAMMESIERING, and to cheat the farmers (HANZEN-BESEFLEN); and they KAMESIER as follows: _Item_, that they come from Rome (_id est_, from the brothel [SONNENBOSS]), studying to become priests (on the gallows, _i.e._ DOLMAN); _item_, one is _acolitus_, another is _epistolarius_, the third _evangelicus_, and a fourth _clericus_ (GALCH); _item_, they have nought on earth but the alms wherewith people help them, and all their friends and family have long been called away by death’s song. _Item_, they ask linen cloth for an alb (_id est_, for a harlot’s shift, _i.e._ GLIDEN HANFSTAUDEN). _Item_, money, that they may be consecrated at next Corpus Christi day (_id est_, in a SONNENBOSS, _i.e._ brothel), and whatever they get by cheating and begging they lose in gambling (VERJONEN), or with strumpets, or spend it in drink (VERSCHOCHERNS und VERBOLENS). _Item_, they shave tonsures on their heads, although they are not ordained and have no church document (FORMAT), though they say they have, and they are altogether a bad lot (LOE VOT). _Conclusio_: As to these KAMMESIERERS give them nought, for the less thou givest them the better it is for them, and the sooner they must leave off. They have also forged FORMATÆ (_literæ_).