155. _Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor._--Jeremy Taylor (_Duct.
Dubit._, book iii. chap. ii. rule 5. quæst. 2.) states:
"The Greek that denied the depositum of his friend, and offered to
swear at the altar that he had restored it already, did not
preserve his conscience and his oath by desiring his friend to
hold the staff in which he had secretly conveyed the money. It is
true, he delivered it into his hand, desiring that he would hold
it till he had sworn; but that artifice was a plain cozenage, and
it was prettily discovered. For the injured person, in indignation
at the perjury, smote the staff upon the ground, and broke it, and
espied the money."
Whence is the above incident derived?