put a viſer on his face, and that imagineth none can make it ſo faſt and fit as himſelfe, and that truſteth altogither to his money, eſteeming no bodie, and liues fitting in his chaire without any care. The Bull doth not ſo, for I haue alwayes knowne him in his affaires no leſſe ſubtill than wiſe, and likes to heare euerye bodie, but ſpeciallye to followe the counſell of graue men in his matters. And touching this matter I dare boldly ſaye to thee and aſſure thee, that the Bull hath a great confidence in me, bicause I brought him to the Court vnder the ſafe condite of my worde, (although it needed not) and the other that I made hym, will make him beleeue me in anye thing I ſaye: and therefore let him come when he liſt, I haue done his errant well inough I warrant ye. He reckeneth himſelfe ſafe with me but I will playe him ſuch a part as the vicious and wicked Foxe played another Lion (as the ſtorie following reiciteth), being like to haue bene deuoured of him.
Of the Foxe and the Lion and of the Foxes deceit to kill the Lion.
There was a maruelous drougth in Arabia Petrea, in that yeare that the hote burninge windes were, and as I remember it was euen
