-- _Of the deceytfull scriuener._ xliii. _ib._

-- _Of him that sayde he beleved his wyfe better than other, that she was chaste._ xliiii. 59

-- _Of him that paid his det with cryeng bea._ xlv. 60

-- _Of the woman that appeled from kynge Philip to kynge Philip._ xlvi. 62

-- _Of the olde woman that prayd for the welfare of the tyran Denyse._ xlvii. 63

-- _Of the phisitian Eumonus._ xlviii. 64

-- _Of Socrates and his scoldynge wyfe._ xlix. 65

-- _Of the phisitian that bare his pacient on hand he had eaten an a.s.se._ l. _ib._

-- _Of the inholders wyfe, and her ii louers._ li. 67

-- _Of hym that healed franticke men._ lii. 68

-- _Of hym that sayd he was nat worthy to open the gate to the kynge._ liii. 70

-- _Of Mayster Uauasour and Turpyn his manne._ liiii. _ib._

-- _Of hym that sought his wyfe, that was drowned, agaynst the streme._ lv. 72

-- _Of hym that at a skyrmyssh defended hym valiauntly with his feete._ lvi. 73

-- _Of hym that wolde gyue a songe to the tauerner for his dyner._ lvii. 74

-- _Of the foole that thought him selfe deed, whan he was a lyue._ lviii. 75

-- _Of the olde man and his sonne that brought his a.s.se to the towne to sylle._ lix. 78

-- _Of him that sought his a.s.se, and rode upon his backe._ lx. 80

-- _The answere of Fabius to Liuius._ lxi. 81

-- _The answere of Poltis the kynge of Trace to the Troyan amba.s.sadours._ lxii. 82

-- _The wyse answere of Haniball to kynge Antiochus concerninge his ryche army._ lxiii. 83

-- _The wordes of Popilius the Romayn amba.s.sadour to Antiochus the kynge._ lxiiii. _ib._

-- _Of hym that loued the marchantes wyfe._ lxv. 84

-- _Of the woman that couered her heed, and shewed up her tayle._ lxvi. 86

-- _How Alexander was monisshed to slee the firste that he mette. lxvii._ _ib._

-- _How the aunciente cyte of Lamsac was saued from destruction._ lxviii. 87

-- _Howe Demosthenes defended a mayde._ lxix. 88

-- _Of him that desyred to be a gentylman._ lxx. 89

-- _Of the gentyllman and his shrewd wife._ lxxi. 90

-- _Of the two yonge men that rode to Walsyngham to gether._ lxxii. 91

-- _Of the yong man of Brugis and his spouse._ lxxiii. 92

-- _Of him that made as he hadde ben a chaste lyuer._ lxxiiii. 93

-- _Of him that the olde roode fell on._ lxxv. 94

-- _Of the wydowe that wolde not wedde for bodily pleasure._ lxxvi. 95

-- _Of the couetous amba.s.sadour, that wolde here no musike for sparinge of his purse._ lxxvii. _ib._

-- _Howe Denyse the tyran of Syracuse serued a couetouse man._ lxxix. 97

-- _Of the old man that quyngered the boy oute of the aple tre with stones._ lx.x.x. 98

-- _Of the ryche man that was sycke and wolde not receyue a glyster._ lx.x.xi. 99

-- _Of him that feyned him selfe deed, to proue what his wyfe wolde do._ lx.x.xii. _ib._

-- _Of the poure man, in to whose house theues brake by nyght._ lx.x.xiii. 101

-- _Of him that shulde haue ben hanged for his scoffinge and his iestynge._ lx.x.xiiii. _ib._

-- _Of him that had his goose stole._ lx.x.xv. 102

-- _Of the begger that sayde he was of kynne to kynge Phylip of Macedone._ lx.x.xvi. 103

-- _Of Dantes answere to the iester._ lx.x.xvii. _ib._

-- _Of hym that had sore eies._ lx.x.xviii. 104

-- _Of the olde woman that had sore eies._ lx.x.xix. 105

-- _Of hym that had the custody of a warde._ xc. 106

-- _Of the excellente peynter, that hadde foule chyldren._ xci. _ib._

-- _Of the scoffer that made one a southsayer._ xcii. 107

-- _Of the marchant of Florence, Charles._ xciii. _ib._