and a lobbynge lobye as thou arte wolde be fed well inoughe with haye and barke of trees.  Poliphe.  Yea but chryste sayd, that which entereth in at the mouthe defyleth not the man.  Canni.  That is to be vnderstand thus yf it be measurably taken, and without the offendinge of our christian brother.  But Paule the disciple of chryst had rather peryshe & sterue with hunger then onys to offende his weyke brothren with his eatynge, and he exhorteth vs to followe his example that in all thynges we maye please all men.  Poli.  What tel ||ye me of Paule, Paule is Paule and I am I. Cannius.  Do you gladly helpe to releue the poore and the indygent with your goodes?  Poli.  Howe can I helpe them whiche haue nothynge to gyue them, and scant inoughe for my selfe.  Cannius. ye myght spare somthynge to helpe the with yf thou woldest playe the good husband in lyuynge more warely, in moderatynge thy superfluous expenses, and in fallynge to thy worke lustely.  Poliphemus.  Nay then I were a fole in dede, a penyworth of ease is euer worth a peny, and nowe I haue found so moch pleasure in ease that I can not fall to no labour.  Canni.  Do you kepe the commaundementes of god?  Polip.  Nowe ye appose me, kepe the comaundementes quod he, that is a payne in dede.  Cannius.  Art thou sory for thy synnes and thyne offences, doest thou ernestly repent the for the.  Poliphemus.  Christ hath payed the raunsome of synne and satisfied for it alredy.  Cannius.  Howe ||prouest thou then that thou louest the gospell and fauoris the word of god as thou bearest men in hande thou doest.  Poliphemus.  I wyll tell you that by & by, and I dare saye you wyl confesse no lesse your selfe then that I am an ernest fauorer of the worde then I haue told you ye tale.  There was a certayne gray frere of the order of saynt Fraunces with vs whiche neuer ceased to bable and rayle agaynste the newe testament of Erasmus, I chaunsed to talke with the getylman pryuatly where no man was present but he and I, and after I had communed awhyle with hym I caught my frere by the polled pate with my left hande and with my right hade I drew out my daggar and I pomelled the knaue frere welfauardly aboute his skonce that I made his face as swollen and as puffed as a puddynge.  Cannius. what a tale is this that thou tellest me.  Poliphemus.  How say you is not this a good and a sufficient proue that I fa||uer the gospell.  I gaue hym absolucion afore he departed out of my handes with this newe testament thryse layde vpon his pate as harde as I myght dryue yt I made thre bunches in his heed as bygge as thre egges in the name of the father, the sone, & the holy goost.  Can.  Now by my trouth this was well done & lyke a ryght gospeller of these dayes.  Truly this is as they saye to dyffende the gospell with the gospell.  Poliphe.  I met another graye frere of the same curryshe couent, that knaue neuer had done in raylynge agaynst Erasmus, so sone as I had espyed hym I was styrred and moued with the brenninge zele of the