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A Certayne gluttonous man tooke his iourney to goe to a wedding wherevnto he was bid∣den. By the way he founde an heape of peares, but none of them he touched, albeit he was excée∣ding hungry, which in contempt he made water on, for he thought scorne of such meate, gooing to so good chéere. But as he passed on his way, he
came to a streame lately risen with rayne, whi∣che without daunger of life he coulde not passe ouer, therefore he returned home agayne: and by the way he was so hungry (bycause of his long fasting) that if he had not eaten the peares that he pissed on, séeing there was nothing else, he had famyshed.
MOR. Despise nothing, for what is so vyle or base, that will not at one time or another serue for some purpose?