¶ Of the Proctour of Arches That Had the Lytel Wyfe. LXI
¶ One askyd a Proctour of the Arches, lately before maryed, why he chose so lytel a wyfe; whiche answered: because he had a texte sayenge thus: ex duobus malis minus105 est eliendum, that is to saye in englyshe, amonge euyll thinges the leste is to be chosen.