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THE FABLES OF POGE THE FLORENTYN.
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theſe two dogges come nerer / And ſayinge theſe wordes toke his waye / & ranne as faſt as he myght / And thenne the cock demaunded and cryed after hym / godſep / why renneſt thow thus / yf the ſayd pacte is accorded / thow oughteſt not to doubte no thynge  Ha a godſep ſayd the Foxe from ferre / I doubte that theſe two dogges haue not herd the decreet of the pees / And thus whanne a begyler is begyled / he receyued the ſallary or payement / whiche he ought to haue / wherfore lete euery man kepe hym ſelf ther fro


POgius reherceth that there were two wymmen in Rome / whiche he knewe of dyerſe age and forme / which came to a Curteyzan by cauſe to haue and wynne ſomwhat wyth theyr bodyes / whome he receyued and happed that he knewe the fayreſt of bothe twyes / and that other ones / and ſoo departed / And afterward whanne they ſhold departe / he gaf to them a pyece of lynen clothe / not decernynge how moche eche of them ſhold haue to her parte and porcion / And in the partynge of the ſayd clothe fylle bitwene the wymmen a ſtryf by