¶ Of the wydow that wolde nat wedde for bodily pleasure. lxxvi.
¶ Of the couetous ambassodour, that wolde here no musike. lxxvii.
¶ How Denise the tirant serued a couetous man. lxxix.
¶ Of the olde man, that quengered [267] the boy oute of the apletree with stones. lxxx.
¶ Of the ryche man that wolde not haue a glyster. lxxxi.
¶ Of hym that feyned hym selfe deed to proue what his wyfe wolde do. lxxxii.
¶ Of the poure man, into whose house theues brake by nyghte. [270] lxxxiii.
¶ Of hym that shulde haue ben hanged for his scoffynge. lxxxiiii.
¶ Of hym that had his goose stole. lxxxv.
¶ Of the begger that sayd he was kyn to kyng Philip of Macedone. lxxxvi.
¶ Of Dantes answere to the iester. lxxxvii.
¶ Of hym that had sore eyes. [274] lxxxviii.
¶ Of the olde woman that had sore eyes. lxxxix.
¶ Of hym that had the custodi of a warde. xc.
¶ Of the excellent paynter, that had foule children. xci.
¶ Of the scoffer that made a man a south sayer. xcii.
¶ Of the marchaunt of Florence called Charles. xciii.
¶ Of the chesshire man called Eulyn. xciiii.
¶ Of him that desired to be set vpon the pillori. xcv.
¶ Of the wydowes daughter that was sent to the abbot with a couple of capons. xcvi.
¶ Of the two men, that dranke a pynte of whyte wyne to gether. xcvii.
¶ Of the doctour that went with the fouler to catche byrdes. xcviii.
¶ Of hym that vndertoke to teache an asse to rede. xcix.
¶ Of the fryer that confessed the woman. [287] c.
¶ Howe a chaplen of Louen deceyued an vsurer. ci.
¶ Of the same chaplen and one that spited him. cii.
¶ Of the olde man that put him selfe in his sonnes handes. ciii.
¶ Of hym that had a flye peynted in his shilde. ciiii.
¶ Of th' emperour Augustus and the olde men. cv.
¶ Phocions oration to the Athen[ian]s. [295] cvi.
¶ Of Demosthenes and Phocion. cvii.
¶ Of Phocion that refused Alexanders gyfte. cviii.
¶ Of Denyse the tyranne and his sonne. cix.
¶ Of Pomponius the Romayne, that was brought before Mithridates. cx.
¶ Of Titus and the iester. cxi.
¶ Of Scipio Nasica and Ennius the poete. [297] cxii.
¶ Of Fabius Minutius and his sonne. cxiii.
¶ Of Aurelian, that was displeased, bycause the cite Tyna was closed agaynst hym. cxiiii.
¶ Of the Nunne forced that durst not crie. cxv.
¶ Of him that sayde he was the Diuelles man. cxvi.
¶ Of the vplandishe [303] priest, that preached of Charitie. cxvii.
¶ Another sayinge of the same preest. cxviii.
¶ Of the fryer that praysed sainct Frauncis. cxix.
¶ Of hym that warned his wife of wasshynge her face in foule puddell water. cxx.
¶ Of the husbandman that caused the iudge to geue sentence agaynst him selfe. cxxi.
¶ Of the Italian friar that shoulde preach before the B. of Rome and his cardinals. cxxii.
¶ Of the doctour that sayd, in Erasmus workes were heresies. cxxiii.