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104 can I doe withall? Mee thinketh this thy mihap is much like to that that happened to the holye man in the other mountaine by a theefe of that countrie: and bicaue I would haue thee knowe it to erue thy turne another time, thou mayt heare it.

In the top of Pirinei Mountaynes, harde to Pampilona, a Citie of Nauarra, in a mountayne called Verrucola dell amiraglio (where the Deuill left Malagigi the notable coniurer when hee brought him to the iourney of Ronciualle) there dwelled a olitarie man giuen altogither to the contemplation of the high and celetiall things of God, who was viited for his holynee and doctrine of all the countrie. So it fell into the King of Canetteria his heade to go ee him alo, and thither he went. Who when he founde him deepe in iudgement of high myteries (as he was mot ignoraunt in bae and mean things) he gaue hym great treaure to buylde and utaine him without trauayle. An olde long practied and beaten theefe hearing of this richee, imagined treight with himelfe to ketche two Doues with one Beane; and one nyght he toke his iourney towardes this holy man, and when hee was come to him, pitifully bewayling the yll lyfe he had led, he prayed the ielye foole to