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MEn commonly will (if through their follie any mischaunce happen to them) laye the blame to Fortune or the Deuill, to excuse them selues, they doo so muche followe their appeti∣tes: wherewith the Deuill not contented, when
by chaunce he espyed an olde woman clymbing a trée, whence he perceyued she was lyke to fal, and then the faulte would be layd on his necke, he called for witnesses, to whome he sayde: Be∣holde; that same olde woman hath climbed that trée without my consente, where I see shee wyll fall: beare witnesse therfore with mée, that I counselled hir not to goe vp. Immediatly she fel: then being demaunded why she climbed that trée, answered, the Deuil forced me: then he brought foorth his witnesses, and proued that she did that without his aduise.
MOR. Those men deserue no pardon, whiche voluntarily sinning, blame Fortune or the De∣uill therfore.