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aged, into the monisteries of the benedicts, that soe lay men might 

 become mouncks, and women nunns ; whereat the Cardinal! 

 laughed p r sently as approuing the iest. This shall not 

 serue y r turne, said a certaine holy frier, unlesse you 

 will advise how wee shall be likewise p'vided for. Why, 

 answered the iester, this is sufficiently p'f ormed allready, ffor my 

 l or Cardinall hath well ordered the matter when he set downe how 

 roagues and vagabonds should be serued, ffor you are the 

 greatest vagabonds and wanderers in the world. Who, we, said 

 the ffrier. Dost thou call us roagues and vagabonds ? Thou 

 art a knaue, a rascall, a slanderer, and sonne of p'dition. W ch , 

 when the iester p'ceaued was taken in such ill parte, he thought 

 it needlesse to exasperate the matter, and therefore, more 

 moderately answered "Good father, be co'tented, f or it is wrighten 

 "you must possesse y r soules in patience." I am not angrie 

 thou naughty pack, answered the {frier, or, at least, I sin not, 

 for the Psalmist saith, "Be angry and ein not." Here the 

 Cardinall advised the ffrier to be more moderate, and suppress his 

 fury. No, Lord, said he, I speak but out of a good zeale, as I 

 ought, for holy men have bin this way transported according to 

 the saying " The zeale of thy house hath eaten mee up ; " and y* 

 is sung in o r church. The Scoffers of Elisheus while 

 he went up to the house of the lo r , the scoffers of his 

 baldnesse, were punished, as this "Eibauld, scould, and 

 mocker may be. Well! answered the Cardinall, you may 

 do this with a good intent ; but surely I suppose it was more 

 religious, yea and mannerly wisdome, not to contend with a 

 foolish man, if you think there is that difference betweene you. 

 No, my good lo r , said the frier, I should noe manner of way be 

 the wiser, ffor Sollomon saith "Answer a foole according to 

 his folly," as I doe now, shewing him the ditch in w ch he 

 must needs fall if he take not heede, for if the many scoffers 

 of Elisheus who was only one balde man felt the curse of the balde, 

 how much more shall this one scoffer of all friers, amoungst 

 whome are multitudes of balde, be punished euerlastingly ; 

 besides wee have warrant from the Pope that all w ch deride us 



