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542 longam, et manu teneat eum nobis. Alii admirati quærebant quare hoc diceret: qui ait, Vide quod primus fuit malus, secundus pejor, iste pessimus; timeo quod cum mortuus fuerit alius pejor succedit qui penitus nos fame perimet. Unde solet dici, Seilde comed se betere." [Seldom comes a better.]

The latter part of this apologue is in Alphonsus, 'De Clericali Disciplina. It is the last of the Latin copy; but not noticed in Mr. Douce's analysis, as occurring in the.

"The wreker of advouterie," [adultery.]

. The Assemblie of Fowles, fol. 235.

"This bird," says Speght, (Gloss, in v.) "breedeth in the chimney-tops of houses, and as it is written of him, if the man or the wife commit adultery, he presently forsaketh the place. And as Aristotle