yowr geste at souper, where ye shall tell it more
conuenyently. Ogy. For sothe I thanke you, that
ye offere yowr selfe to be my gest vndesyred, when
many hertely prayed refuse it, but I wyll gyue yow
double thankes, if ye wyll soupe to day at home.
For I must passe that tyme in doynge my dewty to my
howsehold. But I haue counsell to eyther of vs
moche more profytable. To morrow vnto me and
my wyfe, prepare our dyner at yowr howse, then and
if it be to souper tyme, we will not leyue of talkynge,
vntyll you say that ye are wery, and if ye wyll at
souper also we wyll not forsake you. Why, claw
you your hede? prepare for vs in good fayth we wyll
come. Me. I had leuer haue no tales at all.
Well go to, you shall haue a dyner, but vnsauery,
except you spyce it with good & mery tales. Ogy.
But here || you, are ye not mouyd and styrrede in
your mynde, to take vpon yow these pylgremages? Me.
Perauenture it wyll sett me a fyre, after ye haue told
me the resydew, as I am now mynded, I haue enough to
do with my statyons of Rome. Ogy. Of Rome,
that dyd neuer see Rome?. Me. I wyll tell you,
thus I go my statyons at home, I go in to the parler,
and I se vnto the chast lyuynge of my doughters, agayne
frome thense I go in to my shope, I beholde what my
seruauntes, bothe men and women be doynge. Frome
thense into the kytchyn, lokynge abowt, if ther nede
any of my cownsell, frome thense hyther and thyther
obseruynge howe my chylderne be occupyed, what my
wyffe dothe, beynge carefull that euery thynge be
in ordre, these be statyons of Rome. Ogy. But
these thynges saynt Iames wold dow || for yow.
Mene. That I shuld se vn-
to these thynges holy scriptu-
re commaundethe, that
I shuld commyt the
charge to sayntes
I dyd rede yt
neuer com-
maun-
ded.
to these thynges holy scriptu-
re commaundethe, that
I shuld commyt the
charge to sayntes
I dyd rede yt
neuer com-
maun-
ded.
God saue the kynge
FINIS.
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[Corrected Errors:
v = verso (back of page)
[+] iiij. the pryuate iudgmegt of certayne
was iudgmegt
[+] v. cosolacyo of his gracys faythfull and true
comens
was ofh is
[+] v. v prudently
was prudenly, but catchword
has prudently
[+] vi. but also (to theyr greate laude and prayse)
was prayse(
[+] vi. v
Desiderius Erasmus
was Dsiderius Erasmus
B
Whan he lokythe to the West
was te West
D iij. v
to the company of the wykyd sowdyeres
was compauy
D v.
Frome thens we returnyd in to the quere
was returuyd
E ij. v
Me semede he was a man bothe vertuous and wyse
word a printed only
as catchword


