Of an euyll and proude Bayliffe. The .Lix. Dialogue.
I Suffer a proude Bailiffe.
If he be proude onely, and not a theefe also, it is wel with thee.
I haue an euil Bayliffe.
Beare him indifferently, for vn∣lesse he be very euyl, he is a good Baylyffe.
I am grieued at my rude Bailiffe.
Thou wouldest be more grieued at hym, yf he were soft and delicate: Roughnesse and rudenesse are termes proper for Clownes, for they toyle with the rough oxen, with rough plowes and harrowes, with rough spades and rakes, and lastly with the rough earth it self, and what then shoulde they be other then rude and rough them selues? If he haue no other faulte but that he is rude, he is Bailiffe good ye∣nough.
I cannot abyde an importunate Clowne.
But thou must eyther abyde thy Bayliffe, or els be Bayliffe thy selfe, and determine to goe dwel in the rude countrey where all thynges are hard and rough.
I haue an vnruly husbandman, and without all ciuilitie.
None of these ought to be vnthought vpon of thee. So soone as thou