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112 all this while had hearde the Aes long dicoure, replyed traight and thus he ayde.

O I perceyue your meaning well ynough (good brother Ae) and I knowe I take yee right. If this holye man had erued God and not cat his whole minde on this worldlye pelfe, he had not had that loe he hath, nor bene troubled as he is. If this carren Bawde had beene at home at hir houe till, he had kept hir noe on hir face. And that other Bawde to, if hee had not minded to haue killed the Cocke of hir yong Henne, he alo had not died. Latly the theefe had not uffered death if he had let the olde mans goodes alone: and my elfe (to ay truly) houlde not uffer nowe uch griefe, if I had but onely followed mine owne buinee. I graunt that if I were as I was at the firt, I would not once tirre a foote to meddle in anye bodies matters but mine owne. But well, well, what remedie now? ince I am in for a Birde, and cannot get out, and being ready to burt for pight I beare the Bull that he is thus made off, and et vp: by the Mae I will ende it one waye or other, by hooke or crooke, or it hall cot me the etting on, runne dogge, runne deuill. Sure as a clubbe I will raye ome launder of him, to eae my hart burning withall, and to bring him if I may out of credite. And this