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Rh keepe him company in his prayers, and to teach him the good and holy commaundements of the lawe. And forthwith he gaue himelfe to fating and prayer. So that this holy and imple man thought he would haue lot his wittes, and thus with his cloked deuotion by little and little he made himelfe maiter of the houe and riches. One night this towte theefe caryed awaye a great umme and value, cleering the houe of all that was ought woorth (as a Barbers bain) and bought him a Hogge. This holy deuout man rying in the morning, and miing all his necearies, hee wondered with himelfe, but mot of all hee mued that all his golde, iluer, and things of value were hrunke awaye. Yet hee had uche a heade that he traight thought vppon the malice of his vnhappie choller, lamenting much the loe of this trayed, or rather altogither lot man. But to heare of him agayne he wandered through many a countrie, carefully eeking vp and downe, at leat to meete with him, though hee might not recouer his goodes, and it grieued him fore to be in the middet of his orow, for the loe of the one and the other. This good man being in good hope yet, met in the waye with two wylde and auage Gotes, which were at deadlye foode togither, and tried it out by the heades for lyfe and death, to which fraye came