228 Of an olde man which caried an Asse
IT was talked sometime amongste the Popes Secretaries, that those menne which framed their lyfe after the opinion of the common peo∣ple,
A Schole of wise conceytes wherein as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth : set forth in common places by order of the alphabet / translated out of diuers Greeke and Latine wryters by Thomas Blage ...
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"A Schole of wise conceytes wherein as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth : set forth in common places by order of the alphabet / translated out of diuers Greeke and Latine wryters by Thomas Blage ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A99901.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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were in a miserable bondage, bicause it was impossible to please euery one, séeing they are of sundry iudgements. To which opinion one tolde, that there was an olde man which went to mar∣kette, with his sonne to sell an Asse, whiche he draue vnladen before him. As he passed on his way, there were men labouring by in the fields, which blamed the olde man, bicause that neyther he nor his sonne did ride on the Asse which went emptie, séeing the one for his age, the other for his infancie had néede to be caryed. Then the old man sette his sonne on the Asse, and himselfe went by on foote, which thing other séeing, sayde that he doted for letting his sonne ryde whiche was stronger, and he being olde woulde followe on foote: forthwith he chaunged his minde, and sette off his sonne, and ridde him selfe. When he hadde ridden a little further, other mette hym, who blamed him, that he hadde no regarde to the age of his little sonne, but would let him followe him as a drudge, and him selfe being his Father, did ride on the Asse: wherwith he being moued, sette his sonne also on the Asse. Not long after he was asked by other, whose the Asse was: Mary (quod hée) it is mine: then they rebuked hym that he had no pitie on his poore Asse, but to sette two on him, séeing one was sufficient. Then the man being troubled with so sundry opinions,
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and séeing he coulde not be in quiet, but still wa•• checked, he bounde the Asses foure feete togithe•• and on a staffe caried him on his owne shoulder and his sonnes to markette: whereat all m••nn wondring, laughed excéedingly, blaming both their follies, especially the fathers. The old ma•• therewith chared, went to the riuers ••ide, an•• caste his Asse bounde into the water, and so soft•• him and returned home: by which meanes th•• silly olde man desirous to content euery bodye could please none, but lost his Asse.