¶ Of the Husbande That Sayde Hys Wyfe and He Agreed Well. LXXXIV
Too imperfect to decypher.
¶ Of the Prest That Sayde Comede Episcope. LXXXV
¶ In the tyme of visitacyon a bysshoppe, whiche was maryed130 and had gote many chyldren, prepared to questyon a preest what rule he kepte, whiche preest had a leman * * * * * and by her had two or thre small chyldren. In shorte tyme before the Bysshoppes commynge, he prepared a rowme to hyde his leman and children ouer in the rofe of his hall; and whan the bysshoppe was come and discoursing with him in the same hall, hauynge x of his owne chyldren about him, the preest, who coude speke lytell lytyn or none, bad the bysshoppe in latyn * * * * Comede,131 episcope. This woman in rofe of the house, hearing the preest say so, had went132 he had called her, byddynge her: come, Ede; and answered him and sayde: shall I brynge my chyldren with me also? The bysshoppe, hearing this, sayde in sporte: vxor tua sicut vitis abundans in lateribus domus tuæ. The preest than, halfe amasyd, answerd and sayd: filii tui sicut nouellæ oliuarum in circuitu mensæ tuæ.
By this ye may se, that they, that have but small lernyng, som tyme speke truely unaduysed.