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TWo yong men came into a Cookes shoppe as though they woulde haue bought meate, the Cooke béeing occupied, the one stole a péece of meate out of the basket, and gaue it hys felow to hide vnder his garment: the Cooke per∣ceiuing that a péece of fleshe was gone, accused
them both of theft: then he that tooke it, swore by Iupiter, he had it not: the other that had it, swore that he tooke it not. Well (quod the Cooke) the théefe I know not, but he that you haue sworne by, both sawe and knoweth the théefe.
MOR. If we haue ought offended, men know it not straight way, but God that rideth on the heauens & beholdeth the depthes of the sea, seeth al things: if men woulde remember this, they woulde offend lesse.