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AS an Asse laden with wood passed thorough a marshe, by chaunce he slipped and fell, who not béeing able to aryse, lamented & sighed, but the Frogs whiche were in the marshe, hearing hym sighyng; sayde: What wouldest thou doo sirra, if thou hadst continued here so long as wée haue, which for so smal a tyme doost so mourne?.
MOR This talke maye any manne vse to a slouthfull persons, whiche for a little paynes is
troubled, béeing able easyly to ouercome greate affayres.
THe Goose and the Ducke made sometyme a greate feast, to the whiche they had all tame Foules, but to sette out their Supper, they went into the wyldernesse and founde the Pellicane, whome they brought with them to their banket, When the feaste was doone, they all besoughte the Pellicane to abyde with them, and not to liue so solitarily in suche penurie, who at length beeing somewhat persuaded, continued a fewe dayes wyth them, and made greate bankets: But when hee woulde haue prayde, he was in∣terrupted with their chattering: wherefore he left their companye, and liued the rest of his lyfe in solitarynesse.
MOR Who so will serue God truely, muste do it alone quietly.