What meane these lewde felowes thus to trouble me stil?
No man complainyng, Nor other disdayning, For losse or for gainyng, But felowes or friends to bee.
A thing very fitte For them that haue witte, And are felowes knitte Seruants in one house to bee, Is fast fast for to sitte, And not oft to flitte, Nor varie a whitte, But louingly to agree.
Rouland and his Felowes were glad That Gye was safe in dede.
Roulande to his felowes saide: “Beth alle of right gode chere!
His xij[171] felowes besyed hem̄ soo The others slay many That many of hem̄ thay sloughe.
Item, It is agreed, That all Strangers that shall be electe Felowes of the seid Order, shall be certifyed by Letters of the Soverayne of their Election.
We also feare least our felowes which are in prison shal be slaine, before Mutezuma haue knowlege therof.
They were trimme felowes & well armed according to their vse, although they were paynted so that their faces shewed like diuels with great tuffes of feathers and triumphed gallantly.
Who put Daniell and hys felowes into the burnyng furnace?
O, to se my snow ballys lyght on my felowes heddys, And to here the byrdes how they flycker theyr wynges In the pytfale!
A thing very fitte For them that have witte, And are felowes knitte Servants in one house to bee, 60 Is fast fast for to sitte, And not oft to flitte, Nor varie a whitte, But lovingly to agree.
No man complainyng, 65 Nor other disdayning, For losse or for gainyng, But felowes or friends to bee.
So one of his felowes sayde: go nowe, speake to her.
The whiche answere and folysshe basshemente of the gentyl man caused his felowes to laugh hartelye.
So whan he was on the pillorye, he loked aboute, and sawe his ii felowes busy in the holes of the bouchers aprons, where thei vsed to put theyr money.
The people gaped vp styll and laughed; and whan he saw that his felowes had sped their maters, and were going away, he said to the peple: now turne the pilori ones about, and than I wyl com downe.
When he had confessed him he went home, wher one of his felowes askyd hym whether he had seen God Almighty to day; which answerd and sayd: nay, but I saw one forty shillings better.
There were iii loytteringe felowes fell in companye on a tyme, the whiche wente so longe to gether tylle all theyr money was spente.
He robbyt me and my felowes bothe Of xx marke in serten; If that false owtlay be takyn, For sothe we wolde be fayne.
No man complainyng Nor other disdainyng For losse or for gainyng, But felowes or friends to bee, No grudge remainyng, No work refrainyng, Nor helpe restrainyng, But lovingly to agree.
A thing very fitte For them that have witte And arefelowes knitte Servants in one house to bee, As fast fast for to sitte, And not oft to flitte Nor varie a whitte, But lovingly to agree.
And he departed fro hire and wente to his felowes to schippe, and leet make him knyghte, and cam azen upon the morwe, for to kysse this damysele.
XLIII ‘He robbyt me and my felowes bothe Of twenti marke in serten; If that false owtlay be takyn, Ffor sothe we wolde be fayn.
X ‘Now may I well both hope and sing, For I have bene at Cristes bering; Home to my felowes now will I fling.
Put up thy swerde,’ saide the coke, ‘And felowes woll we be.
Neuertheles nowe of Late (to me no litle mervaile) the saide presedent when I desired hym to accomplishe his saide promesse, alledged for his excuse that the goode willes of the saide felowes coulde not in that behalf be opteyned.
The chylde heareth that Vlisses felowes were turned into swyne, and other fashions of beastes.
Some men also write y^t it skilleth muche who be his sucking felowes & who be his playfelowes.
But yet suche felowes are wonte to colour and cloke theyr doynges vnder a craftie pretence.
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