Shakespeare Jest-Books. Various

       ¶ Of the wydow that wolde nat wedde for bodily pleasure. lxxvi.

       ¶ Of the couetous ambassodour, that wolde here no musike. lxxvii.

       ¶ How Denise the tirant serued a couetous man. lxxix.

       ¶ Of the olde man, that quengered [267] the boy oute of the apletree with stones. lxxx.

       ¶ Of the ryche man that wolde not haue a glyster. lxxxi.

       ¶ Of hym that feyned hym selfe deed to proue what his wyfe wolde do. lxxxii.

       ¶ Of the poure man, into whose house theues brake by nyghte. [270] lxxxiii.

       ¶ Of hym that shulde haue ben hanged for his scoffynge. lxxxiiii.

       ¶ Of hym that had his goose stole. lxxxv.

       ¶ Of the begger that sayd he was kyn to kyng Philip of Macedone. lxxxvi.

       ¶ Of Dantes answere to the iester. lxxxvii.

       ¶ Of hym that had sore eyes. [274] lxxxviii.

       ¶ Of the olde woman that had sore eyes. lxxxix.

       ¶ Of hym that had the custodi of a warde. xc.

       ¶ Of the excellent paynter, that had foule children. xci.

       ¶ Of the scoffer that made a man a south sayer. xcii.

       ¶ Of the marchaunt of Florence called Charles. xciii.

       ¶ Of the chesshire man called Eulyn. xciiii.

       ¶ Of him that desired to be set vpon the pillori. xcv.

       ¶ Of the wydowes daughter that was sent to the abbot with a couple of capons. xcvi.

       ¶ Of the two men, that dranke a pynte of whyte wyne to gether. xcvii.

       ¶ Of the doctour that went with the fouler to catche byrdes. xcviii.

       ¶ Of hym that vndertoke to teache an asse to rede. xcix.

       ¶ Of the fryer that confessed the woman. [287] c.

       ¶ Howe a chaplen of Louen deceyued an vsurer. ci.

       ¶ Of the same chaplen and one that spited him. cii.

       ¶ Of the olde man that put him selfe in his sonnes handes. ciii.

       ¶ Of hym that had a flye peynted in his shilde. ciiii.

       ¶ Of th' emperour Augustus and the olde men. cv.

       ¶ Phocions oration to the Athen[ian]s. [295] cvi.

       ¶ Of Demosthenes and Phocion. cvii.

       ¶ Of Phocion that refused Alexanders gyfte. cviii.

       ¶ Of Denyse the tyranne and his sonne. cix.

       ¶ Of Pomponius the Romayne, that was brought before Mithridates. cx.

       ¶ Of Titus and the iester. cxi.

       ¶ Of Scipio Nasica and Ennius the poete. [297] cxii.

       ¶ Of Fabius Minutius and his sonne. cxiii.

       ¶ Of Aurelian, that was displeased, bycause the cite Tyna was closed agaynst hym. cxiiii.

       ¶ Of the Nunne forced that durst not crie. cxv.

       ¶ Of him that sayde he was the Diuelles man. cxvi.

       ¶ Of the vplandishe [303] priest, that preached of Charitie. cxvii.

       ¶ Another sayinge of the same preest. cxviii.

       ¶ Of the fryer that praysed sainct Frauncis. cxix.

       ¶ Of hym that warned his wife of wasshynge her face in foule puddell water. cxx.

       ¶ Of the husbandman that caused the iudge to geue sentence agaynst him selfe. cxxi.

       ¶ Of the Italian friar that shoulde preach before the B. of Rome and his cardinals. cxxii.

       ¶ Of the doctour that sayd, in Erasmus workes were heresies. cxxiii.

       ¶ Of the frier that preached at Paules crosse