Giftes.
153 Of a Countryman and a Counseller.
A Certeine Countryman béeing in lawe vp to the eares, came to a Counseller, to the ende that by hys helpe he might wynde him selfe
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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oute of the lawe. But his Counseller béeing otherwise occupied, sente him worde that he had no leysure to talke with him now, praying him to returne an other time. The Countreyman accounting him for his sure friende, came often, but could not speake with him. At length he re∣turned againe and broughte with him a yong sucking Kidde and fatte, with whiche he stoode at the Lawyers gate, and often plucked him to make him bleate: the Porter (whom his maister commaunded to open the gates to them that brought presentes) hearing the voyce of the Kid, streight way opened the gate, and had him come in: Then the Countryman turned to the Kyd, & sayde: I thanke thée my little Kyd, for thou arte the cause that I come in so lightly.
MOR. Nothing is so harde but with giftes it is mollifyed.
154 Of Iupiter.
WHat tyme that Iupiter made a feast at a maryage, all beastes brought in their pre∣sents, euery one after his abilitie, among whom the Serpēt was with a rose in his mouth, which he offered: Iupiter séeing him, sayd aloude, euery mans beneuolence I willingly accept, but thine in no wise I will receyue.
MOR The wise man may well gesse that the wicked offer nothing without a craftie pretence.