There be rehearsed meruelous examples of seruauntes toward their masters, whome verely they shulde not haue founde such if they hadde kept them vnder only by strypes.
The lawes of man do temper the fathers power: the same also permit vnto the seruauntes an accion of euyll handlyng, and from whence then commeth thys crueltye amonge christen men?
Yf Pharao call you and axe you what youre occupation is/ saye: thi seruauntes haue bene occupyed aboute catell/ fro oure chilhode vnto this tyme: both we and oure fathers/ that ye maye dwell in the lande of Gosan.
Now therfore let thy seruauntes dwell in the lande of Gosan.
And they sayde vnto him: nay my lorde: but to bye vitayle thy seruauntes are come.
We are all one mans sonnes/ and meane truely/ and thy seruauntes are no spies.
They sayde moreouer vnto Pharao: for to sogeorne in the lande are we come/ for thy seruauntes haue no pasture for their shepe so sore is the fameshment in the lande of Canaan.
Then sayde my lorde vnto his seruauntes brynge him vnto me/ that I maye sett myne eyes apon him.
And Ioseph commaunded hisseruauntes that were Phisicions/ to embawme his father/ and the Physicios [~e]bawmed Israel .
Ouer and bisides the tenth part of euery seruauntes wages the tenth part of the wolle, milke, hony, waxe, chese, and butter.
Thus Araspas departing, telling his moste trustie seruauntes what hee would have done in this matter, went his waye: but Panthea hearing that Araspas was gone, sent to Cyrus this message conteining these woordes.
Praised be God (quoth she then) I haue seruauntes to aduertise your host that you be here with me, to the intente hee shall not tarrie for you.
Among the seruauntes of this greate Lorde there was one no lesse yonge of witte and vnderstanding, then of age.
In the morning the duke's seruauntes seing the time so late before their maister retourned, suspected that he was gone forth in visiting of some Ladye, but when they sawe he taried so long, they began to seke for him in euery place.
After she had eaten a litle, she called for drinke, which one of the seruauntes brought vnto her in a straunge cup: for it was the head of a dead man trimmed with siluer, wherof she drancke twice or thrice.
It chaunced that of long time one of her husband's seruauntes did so disordinately loue her, as vppon a certaine day he could not forbeare but he muste vtter the effect of his loue borne vnto her.
Who then sayd, that neither the king nor she were so happy in seruauntes as the Bastarde was, that had not wherewith to recompence such fidelitie.
The kinge himselfe first, and after his guestes, his seruauntes and his Concubines, set fier in the Pallace, which beinge builded for the most part of Ceder trees, became sodenly in a flame.
Then welcome thy haruest folke, seruauntes and all: with mirth and good chere, let them furnish thine hall.
Now being so affectionate to the king as I am, thynke whyther hys householde Seruauntes haue power to commaund me, and whither my willing mynde be prest to doe them good or not.
His other seruauntes saide, Turpin was behinde, and had hit with him.
By this tale, seruauntes may lerne to kepe theyr maisters biddyng: but yet I aduise maysters therby to take hede, howe they make an iniunction.
Nat longe after, this lordes seruauntes toke hym, and hanged he shulde be.
A certayn wise man called Piso, to auoyde greuous ianglynge, commaunded that his seruauntes shulde saye nothinge, but answere to that that thei were demaunded, and no more.
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