¶ The syxthe fable is of the parsone / of his dogge / And of the Bisshop /

SYluer dothe and causeth alle thynge to be done vnto the halowynge ageyne of a place whiche is prophane or Interdicte / As ye shalle mowe here by thys pre∣sente Fable / ¶ Of a ••reest dwellynge in the countrey whiche Page  [unnumbered]

somtyme had a dogge / whiche he boued moche / the whiche preest was moche ryche / The sayd dogge by processe of tyme deyde / & whan he was dede / he entered and buryed hit in the chirche yerd for cause of the grete loue whiche he loued hym / it hap∣••ed thenne on a day his bisshop knewe hit by thaduertysement of somme other / wherfore he sen••e for the sayd preest / and sup∣posed to haue of hym a grete somme of gold / or els he shold make hym to be straytly punysshed / And thenne he wrote a lettre vnto the sayd preest / of whiche the tenour conteyned only that he shold come and speke with hym / And whan the prest had redde the lettres / he Vnderstood wel alle the caas / and pre supposed or bethought in his courage / that he wold haue of hym somme syluer / For he knewe wel ynough the condycions of his bisshop / & forthwith he toke his breuyarye / & an C crow∣nes with hym / and wente for to speke to his prelate / & whan he came before hym / the prelate beganne to remembre and to she we to hym the enormyte of his mysdede / And to hym answerd the preest whiche was ryght wyse sayenge in this manere / O my ryght reuerende fader / yf ye knewe the souernyne prudence of whiche the sayd dogge was fylled / ye shold not be mer∣ueylled yf he hath wel desernyd for to be buryed honestly and Page  C xl worshipfully amonge the men / he was al sylled thith huma∣yn wytte as wel in his lyf / as in thartycle of the dethe / And thenne the bisshop sayd / how may that be / wherce to me thenne al his lyf / Certaynly ryght reuerende fader ye ought wel to knowe / that whanne he was atte thartycle and at the poynt of dethe / he wold make his testament / and the dogge knowyng your grete nede and Indygence / he bequethed to yow an C crownes of gold / the whiche I brynge now vnto yow / And thenne the Bisshop for loue of the money he assoylled the prest And also graunted the sayd sepulture / And therfore syluer causeth alle thynge to be graunted or done