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POGE THE FLORENTYN.
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¶ The fourth fable is of the huntynge and hawkynge

POge Florentyn reherceth to vs / how ones he was in a felauſhip where men ſpak of the ſuperflue cure of them whiche gouerne the dogges and hawkes / wherof a mylannoys named Paulus beganne to lawhe / and lawhyng requyred of Poge that he wold reherce ſomme fable of the ſayd hawkes / And for loue of alle the felauſhip he ſayd in thys manere / Somtyme was a medecyn whiche was a Mylannoys  This medecyn heled al foles of al maner of foly / and how & in what manere he dyd hele them / I ſhall telle hit to you  This medycyn or leche had within his hows a grete gardyn  And in the myddes of hit was a depe and a brode pytte / whiche was ful of ſtynkynge and Infected water / And within the ſame pytte the ſayd medycyn put the foles after the quantyte of theyr folyſſhnes / ſomme vnto the knes / and the other vnto the bely / And there he bonde them faſt at a poſt / but none he putte depper / than vnto the ſtomack for double of gretter Inconuenient / It