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A16131	The morall philosophie of Doni drawne out of the auncient writers. A worke first compiled in the Indian tongue, and afterwardes reduced into diuers other languages: and now lastly englished out of Italian by Thomas North, brother to the right Honorable Sir Roger North Knight, Lorde North of Kyrtheling.; Fables of Bidpai. English.	Doni, Anton Francesco, 1513-1574. Moral filosophia.; Bı̄dpāı̄.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?	1570 (1570)	STC 3053; ESTC S104622	91,288	193

so many and sundrie yll factes practised such wicked deedes deuised such abhominable practises and made so many snares to ketch the pore Bull in that at the length thou broughtest hym to the Axe And moreouer to giue place to thine iniquitie hast brought thy friende to his death the King in daunger and thy poore kinsfolkes to shame and woorst of all both of you brake your wordes and promise ALthough I be brother to thée by the Fathers side I maye not nor will not trust thée an ynche nor deale with thée for pinnes For he that hurteth his friende wyll not spare to hurt his brother he that hath once deceyued knoweth how to deceyue againe But well once warned halfe armed they say I trow I wil beware of thée well ynough Thou shalt not colt me be sure as the Merchaunt was colted by an euill companion of his whom he trusted and this once tolde thée wée will shake handes and then adue THey saye there was once a great rich Merchaunt that had as much businesse as he could turne him to and amongest other his substance he had many a thousande weight of yron His businesse falling oute so that hee must needes go to Calicut which was a good thousand myles off he gaue to his neighbour a friende of his his yron to keepe till he came home The yron taried the maister many a faire day and seeing hee came not he tooke his leaue and went his waye but hee that had it in keeping tooke reuenge well ynough of his departure and made merie wyth it The Merchaunt after hee was come home went to his friende and asked hym his yron But he that was a slye childe had streyght deuysed an excuse to serue hys turne and sayde to him I would to God you had neuer left it with me For yee were not so soone gone but there came euen the same nyght an armie of Rattes and Myse drawne thither by the sauor of the mettall that lay continually at it so that in fewe dayes before I or any of my house knewe it thinke you that heare it how this was likely they had gnawen and eaten it vp euery whit and had not left by estimation vneaten and not spoyled aboue foure ounces Now imagine you whether this yll happe went to the stomack of me or no. The Merchant hearing so lowde a lye could scant keepe him from laughing though inwardly it grieued him yet soothing him he made as he beleeued him and sayd Sure it is a marueylous matter howe this should come to passe and but that I heare you speake it I woulde neuer beleeue it For doubtlesse it is one of the woonders of the worlde A shame take him that solde it mee I cannot be perswaded but that hee noynted it wyth some oyle or gaue me some of that soft yron that is made of the water of Steele But well let the yron go where it will and all my ylles withall although it bee of no small weight I tell you truly I loue you so muche that I make small reckening of my losse but rather I assure you I think it well bestowed syth the wycked Rattes yet had somewhat to enterteine them with and that they pardoned you and your familie For ye may well know that syth they did eate the yron they had the Woolues disease in them and if that had not bene in the way to haue relieued them by my faye you had smelt of it But since it is gone farewell it no more wordes as Cobbe sayd to his wife when his heade was broken THis craftie fellowe but not so subtill as he tooke himselfe for reioyced at these wordes supposing the Merchaunt had passed no more for the matter and so was pacified whervpon he did conuite him the next day to dinner to him and the Merchaunt accepted his bidding willingly Howbeit he studied all night to serue him as good a turne and he coulde at least to be reuenged at once of his losse and mockes without complayning to the Iustice of his wrong and sure he showed him a right Northfolke tricke and this was the iest THe Merchant sent for to dinner to hys house that had stollen the yron went thyther streight and was marueylously feasted and made off but in deede of his owne cost howbeit the best pleasure of all was the Merchaunt made verie much of a pretie little Boye and hee was the onely sonne and heyre of him that had bidden him to diner and still he fed the Boy and made him great cheere After dinner playing with his sonne and makinge much of him as I tolde you before promising as they doe to children many goodly thinges whylest the father began to nodde and to take a nappe the Merchant made the Boy be caried to a neighbours house of his there he hid him The father when he awaked went forth with the Merchant attending their businesse and thought nothing of his sonne as he that was wont to goe forth without any such care So comming home at night and not finding his sonne out he went all about the towne to seeke him and spared not to aske euerye bodye that hee met if they saw his sonne At the last by good happe hee stumbled on this Merchaunt that in deede had stollen him as the other had stollen his yron before and being in great perplexitie he sorowfullye asked him of his sonne The Merchaunt all things framing as he wished sauing the giuing of his yron to hym to keepe aunswered streight Yes marrie I remember I sawe not long since the winde rose so great a sielye Sparrowe catch a little pretie Boye by the heare of his heade and in that whirlewynde shee snatched him vp and caried him quite away into the ayre and sure by your wordes mee thinkes it should be your sonne Therfore seeke him no more for by this time he is in heauen it is so long agoe I sawe him taken vp from the grounde The father hearing so impossible a thing beganne lyke a madde man to crie oute and sayde O heauen O earth O yee people of the worlde gyue eare vnto this straunge and wonderfull case Who euer heard such a thing Who euer saw so straunge a sight as to see little Sparrowes carie children into heauen Are Children become Chickens or Sparrowes Kytes What sayth the Merchaunt you seeme to haue little practise in the worlde syth yee remember not that an Eagle hath taken vp a man and caried him quite away But Lord what nedes this wondering I marueyle at you aboue all men syth you are vsed to see greater woonders and impossibilities than this For you haue seene Rattes and Myse gnawe yron and eate it when they haue done and I that did but heare it only of your mouth marueiled not a whitte By these woordes his false friende knewe what hee ment well ynough and imagined as it was that to be reuenged for his yron he kept his sonne And seeing no other remedie fallinge downe

not write all his thoughts in his forhed as many times it falleth out vnhappily contrarie to the disposition of his thought that hath offended TRuly faith hath left hir habitation on the earth and bountie reigneth no more in any lande neyther doe I thinke your wisedome can doe more or lesse than the heauens and celestial motions doe dispose you to Lorde what a marueylous thing is this that to come to fame and renowne by degrées of honor it bringeth a thousand daungers with it We neuer or seldome doe well when we followe our owne humor or counsel And he also that out of the bookes of the ignoraunt taketh forth any sentence to serue his turne must of necessitie repent him when he séeth his folye All the Stories of the worlde affirme that a lame man can neuer go vpright The Sages also agrée that the highest places are most daungerous to clyme Therefore it is best euer to beare a lowe saile not to hie for the Pie nor to lowe for the Crowe THy talke brother Moyle sayde Chiarino the Bull me thinketh is verye troublesome and ydle and without any maner of reason It seemeth a folde of wordes that the angry hart discouereth and that hee is not in good peace with hys maister How say ye aunswere me but to this O My good Chiarino thou art inspired with the holy ghost the Deuill is within thée thou hast so rightly hit me It is true the King is angrie and suspecteth somewhat but not thorow me I assure thée nor by my meanes Now thou knowest verie well the promise I made for thée and the beastly othe I tooke which bindeth me in déede to my worde and let it go as it will sure I will not breake my promise with my friende that I loue for anye respect in the worlde let the worlde runne on whéeles as it list Therfore I will tell thée if thou hadst not bene warned of it before And harcken how Two Gotes my verye friendes and of great iudgement came to sée me weening to bring me pleasant newes not knowing that we two are tyed as it were by the nauels togither being both as one in friendship And they tolde me for certaintie that the Lion our King is marueylous angrie that he smoked againe at the mouth making such verses as the Cattes doe when they go a catterwawling in Ianuarie and in that furie he spit forth these words Euer when I sée that Bull before me I am ready to fall for anger An vnprofitable body and no goodnesse in him at all brought into the world but to fill his paunch at others cost I can not be well he doth vexe all the partes of me he doth so much offend me Well I will take order for this well ynough and sith he doth me no seruice by his life I will profit my selfe by his death at least When I heard these words spoken thou mayst imagine whether my heares stoode vpright or no and I could not hold but I must néedes say Well well such Lordes in faith they are lyker Plowmen than those they represent I sée they stie the Hogge to fat him vp and so to eate him O this his ingratitude and crueltie I cannot hyde it and his so great beastlynesse togither hath taken mée by the nose as if I had met with the Mustarde pot For those good qualities of thine for that league that is betwixt vs although I were sure of his Graces indignation and bicause me thinke thou art betrayde I could not choose but come and tell it thée So that good Chiarino thou art great and olde ynough looke well to thy selfe thou néedest not be taught thou art wise ynough and there an ende Thou art past a Steere and a Bull full growne nay rather a fat Oxe But hearest thou me Gods my bones not a word for thy life for if thou doest all the fatte lieth in the fire and the pottage maye be spilt and cast on the Moyles backe CHiarino stoode a while on the ground like a mased beast as one that had bene drie beaten being fronted with so malicious a deuise Then he layde his hande on his heart and bethought him of all his businesse and matters as of his gouernement office liuing aucthoritie and regiment and knowing himselfe as cleere as a Barbers basen he hit the matter rightly imagining as it was that some had wrought knauery agaynst hym and sayde Well go to there is nothing breedes more occasion of mortall hate than the vyle and slye practises of the peruerse and wicked Our Court is full of enuious persons which stirred vp perhaps with spite to see the Prince fauour and lyke my seruice being a coresey to their heart to abide it doe wickedly practise and deuise such mischiefes They seeing as I say the graces and benefites the Prince bestoweth on mee making mee honourable and heapyng great thinges vppon mee doe procure by indirect meanes to make his Maiestie turne his copie me to chaunge my wonted maners Sure when I loke into the matter and aduise it well it is me thinkes a thing not to be credited and it makes me not a little to wonder that hys Grace without cause is thus deceyued yet in the ende truth I knowe wyll take place God will not long suffer such practises Neyther Lawe wyll in any wyse permit that a man shall haue iudgement before he be heard Since I came first as a beast into his Highnes seruice I neuer did any thing that my conscience shoulde accuse me in But yet I haue as great cause to bewayle my myshaps come to me as he that putting himselfe to the sea and might haue gone safe by land was thrown on a rock and drowned and all through his owne seeking All they which busie themselues thus in Court and run from table to table making themselues great with this man and that man still whispering in their eares must notwithstanding that the Prince rewarde them or that he bee very well serued of them and lyke them looke to bee touched at one time or other and vnhappilye to fall into the Princes disgrace and perhaps to remaine so a good whyle out of fauour And this onely riseth by these double reporters and tale bearers or by the enuie of Courtiers which is mother of all vyce and iniquitie I dare boldly shewe my face euery where for anye offence I euer did the king And if I had committed a fault throughe ignoraunce and not of wyll me thinkes I should not be punished neyther for the one nor the other The counsell that I alwayes gaue him hath euer fallen out well and to good purpose And if perhaps they haue not all taken such effect as they ought he must thinke Fortune will play hir part in these worldly things And this I saye for purgation of my vpright and honest meaning to his royall Maiestie I am sure the Kinge will but proceede with iustice following the steppes of the iust the which will laye