Shakespeare Jest-Books. Various
sayde his pater noster. xxvii.
¶ Of him that dreamed he fonde golde. xxviii.
¶ Of the crakynge yonge gentyll man, that wold ouerthrowe his enmyes a myle of. xxix.
¶ Of hym that fell of a tre and brake his rybbe. xxx.
¶ Of the frier that brayde in his sermon. xxxi.
¶ The oration of the ambassadour sent to Pope Urban. xxxii.
¶ Of the ambassadour sent to the prince Agis. xxxiii.
¶ The answere of Cleomenes to the Samiens ambassadour. xxxiiii.
¶ Of the wyse man Piso and his seruant. xxxv.
¶ Of the marchant that made a wager with his lord. xxxvi.
¶ Of the friere that gaue scrowes agaynst the pestilence. xxxvii.
¶ Of the phisitian, that vsed to write bylles ouer eue. xxxviii.
¶ Of hym that wolde confesse hym by writinge. xxxix.
¶ Of the hermite of Padowe. xl.
¶ Of the Uplandysshe man, that sawe the kynge. xli.
¶ Of the courtier that bad the boy holde his horse. xlii.
¶ Of the deceytfull scriuener. xliii.
¶ Of hym that saide he beleued his wyfe better than other, that she was chaste. xliiii.
¶ Of hym that payde his dette with crienge bea. xlv.
¶ Of the woman that appeled fro kyng Philip to kynge Philippe. xlvi.
¶ Of the olde woman, that prayde for the welfare of the tyrant Denise. xlvii.
¶ Of the phisitian Eumonus. xlviii.
¶ Of Socrates and his scoldinge wyfe. xlix.
¶ Of the phisitian that bare his paciente on honde, he had eaten an asse. l.
¶ Of the inholders [222] wyfe and her ii louers. li.
¶ Of hym that healed franticke men. lii.
¶ Of hym that sayde he was not worthy to open the gate to the kynge. liii.
¶ Of mayster Uauasour and Turpin his man. liiii.
¶ Of hym that sought his wyfe agaynst the streme. lv.
¶ Of hym that at a skyrmyshe defended him with his feet. lvi.
¶ Of hym that wolde gyue a songe for his dyner. lvii.
¶ Of the foole that thought hym selfe deed. lviii.
¶ Of the olde man and his sonne that brought his asse to the towne to sylle. lix.
¶ Of him that sought his asse and rode on his backe. lx.
¶ The answere of Fabius to Liuius. lxi.
¶ The answere of Poltis, the kynge of Thrace, to the Troyan embassadors. [246] lxii.
¶ The wyse answere of Hanibal to kynge Antiochus, concerninge his ryche armye. lxiii.
¶ The wordes of Popilius the Romayn embassadour to Antiochus the kynge. lxiiii.
¶ Of him that loued the marchants wyfe. lxv.
¶ Of the woman that couerd her heed and shewed her taile. lxvi.
¶ Howe Alexander was monysshed to slee the fyrste that he mette. lxvii.
¶ Howe the cite of Lamsac was saued from destruction. lxviii.
¶ Howe Demosthenes defended a mayde. lxix.
¶ Of him that desired to be made a gentilman. lxx.
¶ Of the gentyll man and his shrewde wyfe. lxxi.
¶ Of the two yonge men that rode to Walsyngham. [258] lxxii.
¶ Of the yonge man of Bruges, and his spouse. lxxiii.