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   but [he] withhield it and nat havyng any help wold have fled. But he hield hym bi the hoode and pullid of his Cappe, and than his hede appiered scalled, for the whiche than he asked thre pens. Than this courbed man seeyng hymsilf havyng non help nor myght nat flee bigan to Resiste and withstond with naked armes, in whiche [he] apperid [a] lepre; for the whiche than he asked the fourth peny. To whom the defendaunt tooke awey his capp and cast it to the grounde, and [he] appered than Roughered, for the whiche than he toke of hym five pens. So it happed for that he wold [nat] paie oo peny, vnwares paied fyve pens. " A certain philosopher said to his son: "Son, refrain from passing through the house of wicked people, for passing results in stopping, and stopping leads to sitting and sitting ends in a deed. It is related, by way of illustration, that two priests went forth from the city one evening for a walk, and they came to a house where some drinkers had met together.

A Priest in the House of Drinkers

Petrus Alphonsus tellis how on a tyme two clerkis went samen before a place ther thar was many drynkers, and thai callid thaim in. And the tone of thaim went into thaim and the toder wold nott, bod went on hys wais; and it was fer within nyght. So the wachis of the town fande all thies drynkers syttand samen, and the clerk with thaim, and becauce a man of the town was robbid that nyght, thai tuke thaim all and the clerk with thaim, and hanged thaim. And the clerke at bade with, thaim, or he was hanged, sayd on this maner of wyse; " What- somevur he be at vsis ill company, na dowte of he sall hafe ane ill dead. "

The Latin version of this tale (No. vii, see I, 12, l. 2) is as follows: