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 ...

105 Of a man that would kill a Hogge.

IT was a custome in a certaine Citie of Picene in Italie, that he which killed a Hog in Win∣ter, should bid hys neighbours to supper. Now there was one which minded to kill a Hog, but lothe he was to bée at any charges, wherevpon he asked the aduise of his Godfather, howe he might thifte off the expences. Tell abroad (quod he) to morrow, that this night there was a Hog stollen from thée. It happened the same nyght, (he nothing mistrusting it) that one verily con∣ueyed a Hogge from him. In the morning when he rose, he looked for his hogges, wherof missing one, he went incontinent to his Godfather, and cryed aloude, that one of his Hogges were stol∣len. Well doone (quod he) thou playest the wise fellow, for so I taught thée to speake: the other swore by all the Gods he did not lye. I conne thée thanke (sayd his Godfather) thou followest

wel my coūsel. The other for al that did sweare and stare the more that it was true. Thou art to be commended (quod he) for I forewarned thée so to say, & my counsell was good. The other sée∣ing him selfe thus flouted, departed heauily.