Shakespeare Jest-Books. Various

sayde his pater noster. xxvii.

       ¶ Of him that dreamed he fonde golde. xxviii.

       ¶ Of the crakynge yonge gentyll man, that wold ouerthrowe his enmyes a myle of. xxix.

       ¶ Of hym that fell of a tre and brake his rybbe. xxx.

       ¶ Of the frier that brayde in his sermon. xxxi.

       ¶ The oration of the ambassadour sent to Pope Urban. xxxii.

       ¶ Of the ambassadour sent to the prince Agis. xxxiii.

       ¶ The answere of Cleomenes to the Samiens ambassadour. xxxiiii.

       ¶ Of the wyse man Piso and his seruant. xxxv.

       ¶ Of the marchant that made a wager with his lord. xxxvi.

       ¶ Of the friere that gaue scrowes agaynst the pestilence. xxxvii.

       ¶ Of the phisitian, that vsed to write bylles ouer eue. xxxviii.

       ¶ Of hym that wolde confesse hym by writinge. xxxix.

       ¶ Of the hermite of Padowe. xl.

       ¶ Of the Uplandysshe man, that sawe the kynge. xli.

       ¶ Of the courtier that bad the boy holde his horse. xlii.

       ¶ Of the deceytfull scriuener. xliii.

       ¶ Of hym that saide he beleued his wyfe better than other, that she was chaste. xliiii.

       ¶ Of hym that payde his dette with crienge bea. xlv.

       ¶ Of the woman that appeled fro kyng Philip to kynge Philippe. xlvi.

       ¶ Of the olde woman, that prayde for the welfare of the tyrant Denise. xlvii.

       ¶ Of the phisitian Eumonus. xlviii.

       ¶ Of Socrates and his scoldinge wyfe. xlix.

       ¶ Of the phisitian that bare his paciente on honde, he had eaten an asse. l.

       ¶ Of the inholders [222] wyfe and her ii louers. li.

       ¶ Of hym that healed franticke men. lii.

       ¶ Of hym that sayde he was not worthy to open the gate to the kynge. liii.

       ¶ Of mayster Uauasour and Turpin his man. liiii.

       ¶ Of hym that sought his wyfe agaynst the streme. lv.

       ¶ Of hym that at a skyrmyshe defended him with his feet. lvi.

       ¶ Of hym that wolde gyue a songe for his dyner. lvii.

       ¶ Of the foole that thought hym selfe deed. lviii.

       ¶ Of the olde man and his sonne that brought his asse to the towne to sylle. lix.

       ¶ Of him that sought his asse and rode on his backe. lx.

       ¶ The answere of Fabius to Liuius. lxi.

       ¶ The answere of Poltis, the kynge of Thrace, to the Troyan embassadors. [246] lxii.

       ¶ The wyse answere of Hanibal to kynge Antiochus, concerninge his ryche armye. lxiii.

       ¶ The wordes of Popilius the Romayn embassadour to Antiochus the kynge. lxiiii.

       ¶ Of him that loued the marchants wyfe. lxv.

       ¶ Of the woman that couerd her heed and shewed her taile. lxvi.

       ¶ Howe Alexander was monysshed to slee the fyrste that he mette. lxvii.

       ¶ Howe the cite of Lamsac was saued from destruction. lxviii.

       ¶ Howe Demosthenes defended a mayde. lxix.

       ¶ Of him that desired to be made a gentilman. lxx.

       ¶ Of the gentyll man and his shrewde wyfe. lxxi.

       ¶ Of the two yonge men that rode to Walsyngham. [258] lxxii.

       ¶ Of the yonge man of Bruges, and his spouse. lxxiii.

       ¶ Of hym that made as he hadde ben a chaste lyuer. lxxiiii.

       ¶ Of hym that