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of sundrye faculties and occupacions whiche wyll promyse more by an ynch of a candle then they wyll performe by a whole pounde. _Boni._ Why ||and ye call this lyenge all the worlde is full of suche lyenge. _Bea._ Ye se also lykewyse that no man can abyde to be called thefe, and yet all men do not abhorre the thynge so greatly. _Boni._ I wolde gladly haue you to declare your mynde in this more playnlye & at large. _Bea._ What difference is there betwene hym whiche stealeth thy money forthe of thy cofer, and hym whiche forsweareth and falsely denyeth that whiche thou comytted to his custodie to be reserued and safely kept for thy vse only, or to suche tyme as thou arte mynded to call for it agayne. _Boni._ There is as they say neyther barrell better hearing, but that in my iudgement he is the falser knaue of the twayne whiche robbes a man that puttes his confidence and trust in hym. _Bea._ yea but howe fewe men are there nowe adayes lyuynge whiche are contente to restore agayne that whiche they were put in truste to kepe, or yf they deluer it agayne it is ||so dymynysshed, gelded, nypped, and pynched, that it is not delyuered whollye, but some thinge cleues in theyr fyngers, that the prouerbe may haue place where the horse walloweth there lyeth some heares. _Boni._ I thynke but a fewe that dothe otherwyse. _Bea._ And yet for all that there is none of al these that ca abyde it ones to be called thefe, and yet forsothe they hate not the thing so greatly. _Boni._ That is as trewe as the gospell. _Bea._ Consyder me nowe and marke I beseche the howe the goodes of orphanes, pupylls, wardes, and fatherlesse chyldren be comunely ordered and vsed, how wylles and testamentes be executed and performed, how legacyes and bequethes be communelye payde, Naye howe moche cleueth and hangeth fast in the fyngers of the executors or with them that mynyster and intermedle with the goodes of the testatours. _Boni._ Many tymes they retayne and kepe in theyr handes all togy||ther. _Bea._ Yea they loue to playe the thefe well inoughe, but they loue nothynge worse then to here of it. _Boni._ That is very trewe. _Bea._ Howe lytle dyffers he from a thefe whiche boroweth money of one and other and so runneth in dette, with this intent and purpose that yf he maye escape so or fynde suche a crafty colour or a subtyle shyft, he intendeth neuer
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