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courteous entertainement, and familiar acceſſe he had to the King hee could neuer get landes nor poſſeſſions: howbeit he obtained many pretie ſuites of the Kinge, nowe for one man, than for another. Further,, he was ſo bolde and familier with him that hee woulde not ſticke to giue him worde for worde, nor forbeare him an inche. And paſſed many things by the Bulles meanes, which his mightie Bulſhip gaue him gratis, for that he was as a ſworne brother to his Moileſhip. In the ende this Moyle growen thus great began to looke hie, and prouinder pricked him ſo, that like a beaſt (forgetting himſelfe) he muſt needes take vpon him to reproue his Maieſtie of parcialitie, and ignoraunce; and hauing no bodie that he might truſt to breake withall he was ready to burſt for anger. Wherefore he was forced to ſeeke oute the Aſſe his brother, and to make him priuie to the matter, knowing he had none ſo ſure a friend to him whom he might truſt but he. When they met, he beganne to tell him at large his whole griefe and trouble, complayning of the ingratitude of the King all at once, that he had ſo long followed his tayle, and had neuer any thing of him worth his trauell; and if I had done no more but brought him out of the feare he was in, and to bring the Bull to his preſence. And here hee poured out to the Aſſe a worlde