+ _Of hym that rode out of London, and had his
seruaunt folowynge hym on foote._ i. 15
+ _Of hym that preached on saynte Christofers
day._ ii. 16
+ _Of the frenche man that stroue with the
Fanwaye for his armes._ iii. _ib._
+ _Of the curate that sayde our lorde fedde fyue
hundred persones._ iiii. 17
+ _Of hym that profered his doughter to one
in maryage._ v. 18
+ _Of the men of the countrey, that came to
London to bye a crucifixe of wodde._ vi. _ib._
+ _Of hym that folowed his wyfe to buryeng._ vii. 19
+ _Of hym that felle in to the fyre._ viii. _ib._
+ _Of hym that used to calle his seruaunte the
kynge of fooles._ ix. 20
+ _Of the yonge woman, that sorowed so greatly
the deathe of her husbande._ x. 21
+ _Of hym that kyssed the fayre mayde with the
longe nose._ xi. _ib._
+ _Of the uplandysshe mans answere concernyng
the steple and pulpytte._ xii. 23
+ _Of the beggers aunswere to mayster Skelton
the poete._ xiii. _ib._
+ _Of the chaplen that sayde our ladye mattens
lyenge in his bedde._ xiiii. 24
+ _Of hym that loste his purse in London._ xv. 25
+ _Of the marchaunt that loste his boudget betwene
ware and London._ xvi. 26
+ _Of him that was called kockold._ xvii. 27
+ _Of the iolus man._ xviii. 28
+ _Of the fat woman that sat and solde frute._ xix. _ib._
+ _Of a poller that begyled a preste._ xx. 29
+ _Of Papirius pretextatus._ xxi. 31
+ _Of the corrupte man of lawe._ xxii. 33
+ _Of kynge Lowes of Fraunce and the husbandman
Conon._ xxiii. 34
+ _Of a picke thanke, that thought to begyle the
same moste prudent kynge._ xxiiii. 37
+ _Of Thales the great astronomer, the whiche
felle in to a ditche._ xxv. 38
+ _Of the astronomer that theues robbed._ xxvi. 39
+ _Of the plough man that wolde saye his pater
noster with a stedfast mynde._ xxvii. _ib._
+ _Of him that dreamed he founde golde._ xxviii. 40
+ _Of the crakynge yonge gentyll man that wolde
ouerthrowe his enemys a myle of._ xxix. 42
+ _Of him that fell of a tre and brake a rybbe in
his syde._ xxx. 44
+ _Of the fryer that brayed in his sermon._ 45
+ _The oration of th ambassadour that was sent
to Pope Urban._ xxxii. 46
+ _Of the ambassadour that was sent to the prince
Agis._ xxxiii. 47
+ _The answere of Cleomenes to the Samiens
ambassadour._ xxxiiii. _ib._
+ _Of the wyse man Piso, and his seruant._ xxxv. 48
+ _Of the marchant that made a wager with his
lorde._ xxxvi. 49
+ _Of the scrowes that the frier gaue out against
the pestilence._ xxxvii. 51
+ _Of the physition that used to wryte bylles
ouer nyght called resceytes._ xxxviii. 52
+ _Of him that wolde confesse him by a lybell in
wrytynge._ xxxix. 53
+ _Of the hermite of Padowe._ xl. 54
+ _Of the uplandissh man that saw the kyng._ xli. 56
+ _Of the courtier that bade the boye to holde his
horse._ xlii. 57
+ _Of the deceytfull scriuener._ xliii. _ib._
+ _Of him that sayde he beleved his wyfe better
than other, that she was chaste._ xliiii. 59
+ _Of him that paid his det with cryeng bea._ xlv. 60
+ _Of the woman that appeled from kynge Philip
to kynge Philip._ xlvi. 62
+ _Of the olde woman that prayd for the welfare
of the tyran Denyse._ xlvii. 63
+ _Of the phisitian Eumonus._ xlviii. 64
+ _Of Socrates and his scoldynge wyfe._ xlix. 65
+ _Of the phisitian that bare his pacient on hand
he had eaten an asse._ l. _ib._
+ _Of the inholders wyfe, and her ii louers._ li. 67
+ _Of hym that healed franticke men._ lii. 68
+ _Of hym that sayd he was nat worthy to open
the gate to the kynge._ liii. 70
+ _Of Mayster Uauasour and Turpyn his manne._
liiii. _ib._
+ _Of hym that sought his wyfe, that was drowned,
agaynst the streme._ lv. 72
+ _Of hym that at a skyrmyssh defended hym
valiauntly with his feete._ lvi. 73
+ _Of hym that wolde gyue a songe to the tauerner
for his dyner._ lvii. 74
+ _Of the foole that thought him selfe deed, whan
he was a lyue._ lviii. 75
+ _Of the olde man and his sonne that brought
his asse to the towne to sylle._ lix. 78
+ _Of him that sought his asse, and rode upon his
backe._ lx. 80
+ _The answere of Fabius to Liuius._ lxi. 81
+ _The answere of Poltis the kynge of Trace to
the Troyan ambassadours._ lxii. 82
+ _The wyse answere of Haniball to kynge Antiochus
concerninge his ryche army._ lxiii. 83
+ _The wordes of Popilius the Romayn ambassadour
to Antiochus the kynge._ lxiiii. _ib._
+ _Of hym that loued the marchantes wyfe._ lxv. 84
+ _Of the woman that couered her heed, and
shewed up her tayle._ lxvi. 86
+ _How Alexander was monisshed to slee the
firste that he mette. lxvii._ _ib._
+ _How the aunciente cyte of Lamsac was saued
from destruction._ lxviii. 87
+ _Howe Demosthenes defended a mayde._ lxix. 88
+ _Of him that desyred to be a gentylman._ lxx. 89
+ _Of the gentyllman and his shrewd wife._ lxxi. 90
+ _Of the two yonge men that rode to Walsyngham
to gether._ lxxii. 91
+ _Of the yong man of Brugis and his spouse._
lxxiii. 92
+ _Of him that made as he hadde ben a chaste
lyuer._ lxxiiii. 93
+ _Of him that the olde roode fell on._ lxxv. 94
+ _Of the wydowe that wolde not wedde for bodily
pleasure._ lxxvi. 95
+ _Of the couetous ambassadour, that wolde here
no musike for sparinge of his purse._ lxxvii. _ib._
+ _Howe Denyse the tyran of Syracuse serued
a couetouse man._ lxxix. 97
+ _Of the old man that quyngered the boy oute of
the aple tre with stones._ lxxx. 98
+ _Of the ryche man that was sycke and wolde
not receyue a glyster._ lxxxi. 99
+ _Of him that feyned him selfe deed, to proue
what his wyfe wolde do._ lxxxii. _ib._
+ _Of the poure man, in to whose house theues
brake by nyght._ lxxxiii. 101
+ _Of him that shulde haue ben hanged for his
scoffinge and his iestynge._ lxxxiiii. _ib._
+ _Of him that had his goose stole._ lxxxv. 102
+ _Of the begger that sayde he was of kynne to
kynge Phylip of Macedone._ lxxxvi. 103
+ _Of Dantes answere to the iester._ lxxxvii. _ib._
+ _Of hym that had sore eies._ lxxxviii. 104
+ _Of the olde woman that had sore eies._ lxxxix. 105
+ _Of hym that had the custody of a warde._ xc. 106
+ _Of the excellente peynter, that hadde foule
chyldren._ xci. _ib._
+ _Of the scoffer that made one a southsayer._ xcii. 107
+ _Of the marchant of Florence, Charles._ xciii. _ib._
+ _Of the chesshire man called Eulyn._ xciiii. 108
+ _Of hym that desyred to be sette vpon the
pyllorye._ xcv. 109
+ _Of the wydowes daughter, that was sente to
the abbot with a couple of capons._ xcvi. 111
+ _Of the two men that dranke a pynte of whyte
wyne to gether._ xcvii. 112
+ _Of the doctour that desyred to go with a fouler
to catche byrdes._ xcviii. 114
+ _Of hym that undertoke to teache an asse to
spelle and rede._ xcix. 115
+ _Of the fryer that confessed the fayre woman._ c. 116
+ _Of the chapplen of Louen called syr Antonye
that deceyued an vserer._ ci. 118
+ _Of the same chaplen and his spiter._ cii. 119
+ _Of the olde manne that putte hym selfe in his
sonnes handes._ ciii. 121
+ _Of hym that had a flye peynted in his shilde._
ciiii. 122
+ _Of the emperour Augustus and the olde men._ cv. 123
+ _Of Phocions oration to the Atheniens._ cvi. _ib._
+ _Of Demosthenes and Phocion._ cvii. 124
+ _Of the aunswere of Phocion to them that brought
hym a great gyfte from Alexander._ cviii. _ib._
+ _Of Denyse the tyran and his sonne._ cix. 125
+ _Of Pomponius the Romayne that was taken
and brought before Mithridates._ cx. _ib._
+ _Of Titus and the scoffer._ cxi. 126
+ _Of Scipio Nasica, and Ennius the poete._ cxii. _ib._
+ _Of Fabius Minutius and his sonne._ cxiii. 127
+ _Of Aurelian the emperour, that was displeased,
bycause the citie Tyana was closed
agaynste him._ cxiiii. 128
+ _Of the Nunne forced that durst not crie._ cxv. 129
+ _Of him that sayde he was the Diuelles man._
cxvi. _ib._
+ _Of the vplandishe priest, that preached of
Charitie._ cxvii. 130
+ _An other sayinge of the same preest._ cxviii. 131
+ _Of the fryer that praysed sainct Frauncis._
cxix. 133
+ _Of hym that warned his wife of wasshynge her
face in foule puddell water._ cxx. _ib._
+ _Of the husband man that caused his iudge to
geue sentence agaynst him selfe._ cxxi. 134
+ _Of the Italian frier that shoulde preach before
the B. of Rome and his cardinals._ cxxii. _ib._
+ _Of the doctour that sayd, in Erasmus workes
were heresies._ cxxiii. 136
+ _Of the frier that preached at Paules crosse
agaynst Erasmus._ cxxiiii. 137
+ _Of an other frier that taxed Erasmus for
writyng Germana theologia._ cxxv. 138
+ _Of an other that inueighed agaynst the same
Erasmus._ cxxvi. _ib._
+ _Of kyng Richarde the iii. and the Northern
man._ cxxvii. 139
+ _Of the Canon and his man._ cxxviii. 140
+ _Of the same Canon and his sayd man._ cxxix. _ib._
+ _Of the gentilman that checked hys seruant
for talke of ryngyng._ cxxx. 141
+ _Of the blynde man and his boye._ cxxxi. 142
+ _Of him that sold two lodes of hey._ cxxxii. _ib._
+ _How a mery man deuised to cal people to a
playe._ cxxxiii. 145
+ _How the image of the dyuell was lost and
sought._ cxxxiiii. 148
+ _Of Tachas, kyng of Aegypt, and Agesilaus._
cxxxv. 149
+ _Of Corar the Rhetorician, and Tisias hys
scoler._ cxxxvi. 150
+ _Of Augustus and Athenodorus the Phylosopher._
cxxxvii. 151
+ _Of the frenche kyng and the brome seller._
cxxxviii. 152
+ _An other tale of the same frenche kyng._
cxxxix. 153
+ _What an Italyan fryer dyd in his preaching._
cxl. 155