¶ How Howleglas de●eyued a wine drawer in jubeke.    

O On a time can Howlegias to jubeke where is very straight justice And while the Howleglas was there abiding he hard tell of a wine drawer the was in a jordes' seller that was very proud and presumtyouse and said that there was no man that culde deseyve him or pass him in wisdom and there was none of all the lords that loved him Than thought howleglas in his mind how he might deseyve him Than upon a time took Howleglas. ij. pots one of water and the other empty and he hid the empty pot that noman saw it and came to the seller and gave the wine dramer the empty pot and bade him fill the pot with wine and so he did and when it was full he brought it up to Howleglas and than he looked a side and in the mean while howleglas set the pot of water in the pot or wines place and hid the pot of wine & than ask he the drawer what he should pay and the drawer said. x. wytten that said howleglas the wine is to dear for me/ For I have but viii. wytten Than was the wine drawer angerye and said will ye set another price on the wine than the lords have set Than said howleglas I have no more money and I shall nath●●ue it so than take your wine again for I knew it not before/ Than was the wine deawer very angry and took the ●●ot with the water & bore it down into the seller and pored out the water into the vessel & went it had been the wine & came and gave Howleglas the pot and said make ye me fill wine and ye have no money to pay for it ye ween I be a fool & than said Howleglas pe be beguiled of a fool and with that word went his way with the pots/ and than the drawer mistrusting Howleglas for the words that he said and took a sergeant and over took him and searched him and than they found that he had two pots under his mantel than took they Howleglas & peched him for a thief & brought him to prison and than said some that he had deserved to be hanged a some said that it was done for the nonse to deseyne the wine drower and that was but well done For be should have seen thereto before for he saith daily that no man should beguile him. but they that loved not howleglas said that he was a thief & that he should be hanged and than was Howleglas brought before the judges and they gave sentence that he should be hanged and on the morrow was he brought unto the gallows for to be hanged for they that loved him not would fain have seen iusteyse done on him and there were gathered many of the cowne to see Howleglas suffer death/ but the lords of jubeke were soryefor him for some went that he culde socery or wytchecrafre that he therewith simlde be delivered and as he was led toward the galowse he lay all still as though he had been all deed and when he came under the gallows than desired he to speak with the lords & when the lords were come he fell upon his knes and prayed them that they would grant him a 'bove and the lords said that should be his life that he would ask. And than said How leglas it shall not be my life not money nor it should not cost them one penny of cost And all the lords of jubeke went to the other side of the gallows and took acounsayll & they repeated his words and than agreed to grant him his peryeyon & came to him and bade him ask whatsoever he would save those words that were a 'bove rehearsed. And than thanked howl glass the lords and said I pray you that every oon of you will give me your hands thereon & than all to gyther gave him they: hands so that all the lords had granted him both he with word and hand Than said Howleglas to the lords by cause I how that ye be so faithful of your words I shall show to you my bone and than he said this is my bone that every lord of jubeke to come & kiss my athis when that I am hanged upon the gallows by the space of three days long with his mowth in the morning fasting and the Gorowghe master first and all the lords after in order Than answered the lords to Howleglas and said that that was a unmannerly bone for to be asked And then said howl glass to the lords of jubeke I know the counsel of jubeke so sure of their promise that they would hold that they have promised both with hand & mouth Then wentethe lords again to counsel and than said the oon to the other this thing that he asks of us it is unlawfully asked for it were a great shame for us ●ll that we that be the greatest lords of the town should come and kiss his arse better it were for us to give him his pardon & let him go his way for it is but asmall faure that he hath done than agreed all the lords and said that it was best for to do/ than called the lords the sergeants and bad them that they should unbind Howleglas & let him go at large for they all had given him his pardon & than did they unlose Howleglas & when Howleglas was at large he thanked the lords and than departed he fro jubeke & was delivered and never came there after.  

¶ How Howleglas became a maker of spectakles and how he culde find no work in no land wheresoever he came.  
O● on a time the Seniatours of Ro●● h●● great discord among themself which of all the lords should be Emperor And at the last was the Earl of Supplem browgh kings of Romans and emperor of Rome but there were many other that looked for it So when he was made he lay. vi. weeks long before that town of Frankeforde 〈◊〉 biding there for a● other lords to torment where was a great company assembled And this hearing. Howleglas thought in his mind to go thither and so he and for there he thought to get some gyfre and it were no more but the emperors silver harnepse And as Howleglas passed be frankford he met with the bishop of Taer and by cause that he was clothed aventurelye he asked him what he was and Howleglas answered I am a spectacle maker come out of Grabant and I can find no work than said the bishop m● think that your craft should be better daily for the people the longer the live the less sight they have therefore your craft should be better daily/ & than said Howleglas to the bishop my lord ye say truth but there is one thing that destroyeth our craft and if that ye will not take no displeasure I shall show it to you/ and than the bishop bade him say what he would & than said he this dell●● wyes our craft that such ●re Than said the merchant all angrily god d●●ue it underneath the galows●/ and as he was a little ferther he spied a gallows & thither dreved he the wagon under nethe the gallows/ and when it was under nethe he made the wagon to stand 〈◊〉 untied the horse Than say●● the merchan̄●●hat will ye now d●● than 〈◊〉 Howleglas ●ary here all night for ye b●● 〈…〉 drive under the gallows Than when these 〈◊〉 saw that they were under the galowse than 〈◊〉 but the merchant was angry and 〈…〉 drive fourth right and never stand 〈…〉 said Howleglas he would than pulled 〈…〉 a pin that is in the wagen that he●●● 〈◊〉 to the horse and drove the horse fourth 〈…〉 folk standing still under 〈…〉 ●●ynge this lep●● 〈…〉 and a p●●●● with him and run 〈…〉 at the sas●● they over took him 〈◊〉 than the 〈◊〉 chaunte dream his sword and would have 〈…〉 him but the priest would not suffer him/ & th●● made he fast the horse a gain & he than dre●●● out the journey And when the merchant was come home his wife asked how he fared and how he liked his man he answered so so than he called Howleglas and bade him tarry there that night and eat his belly full & in the mo●nynge depart fro thence for he said that he was but a beguiler and a deseyver where so ever he went● Than said Howleglas good master that shall I do and than a rose Howleglas early in the morning and as he was up the merchant said eat and drink your belly full & rid the house of you that I find ye nathere when that I come again for I must go to church for & I find you here I shall beat you that ye shall beshyte your breach And than held Howleglas his peace & spoke never a word to him and when that the merchaunce was at church than began he for to rid all the household stuff out of the house and bore it into the street than word came to his master to the church that all his household stuff stood in the street Than came the merchant home & saw that it was Howleglas that had borne out all his stuff and asked him why he did so and Howleglas said I do as ye bade me for ye bade me that I should rid your house and so I have of all your stuff that ye have/ than said the merchant to Howleglas depart fro hence & come no more here with the delves name for here is no body that thanks the for thy labour and than departed Howleglas his way and so was the merchant sayne to carry in his gear again that Howleglas had borne out.   

¶ How Howleglas was bid for a geste.  
IN junen borowgh dwelled a flewte maker that knew well land roners and knew also much decepte And on a time came he to the in where Howleglas was and bade him to morrow at none cumere with me than thanked Howleglas him and said that he would & than departed the flewte maker home and on the morrow at none went Howleglas to the pipe maker's house and when he came there he fund all the doors shut and than walked he round a bout the house till none was passed and then knew he well that he was deceived and returned home a gain and on the morning as he walked in the marker he spied the pipe maker and than went he to him and thanked him for his dinner and said when ye bid a body shit ye all your doors/ and the pipe maker said I bade you come eat but you culde not come in fo● I had shut the doors and than he lawhed and said go to my house afore & I shall come after to dinner for ye shall find there both roast and sod and than departed Howleglas to the pipe maker house there he found altrewe as the pipe maker told him and than said he to the pipe maker's wife that she should go as fast as she culde to her hushande and said that he had a great sturgyn given him and said that he would turn the spit till that she tam home a gain the woman said good Howleglas keep the house till that I come a yeen and let no body in than departed the woman with her maid toward her husband as fast as she culde and met with him by the way and when he saw her he asked her wether she went so fast and she said to help him for she said that Howleglas had told to her that ye had a sturgen given you and said that ye bad that we should come & help you for it was so great that ye were not able to bear it/ than was the man angry and said know ye not well that Howleglas is such a mocker and a dessecker than went he home with his wife and when he came home he knocked at the door and Howleglas said let be your knocking for the host hath charged me that I shall not let no geste in till dinner be done for them she said that she would be here than said he that is truth but she meant not so & than went he to his nayghbours and tared there to Howleglas had dined and when that Howleglas had dined and made good there than opened he the door and than the pypemaker came in with all his folk And when he was within he said to Howleglas that it was no honest for a geste to shut his hoostayse out of the doors and in this manner served he his host and the hoostayse.  
with a good will and than took Howleglas the shown & put in the little shown into the great shown and sowed them both to gyther as his master had bid him and at the last that had sp●ed his master and said ye be a good servant fo● ye do all thing as men bid you/ Than an●●●tred Howleglas and said/ they that do as they be bid they be wordy to have thank than said the master ye do after my saying and not after my meaning for I meant that first ye s●●tide have sowed a little pair and after a great payer and the master was hastey & took him other ledder and said cut me all this ledder upon o●n last and the master thought no more of the falseness of Howleglas depa●●●●● his ●hamber and when he was come 〈…〉 remnembered he what he had sapd to 〈…〉 th●n went he as fast as he cu●● 〈…〉 shop whe●● as Howleglas 〈…〉 three Howleglas had cut all 〈…〉 ly●●●●il● 〈◊〉 all for the ●efte fo● 〈…〉 plaster sow all his leader all 〈…〉 he Howleglas 〈…〉 ●●●he lesee fo●e a lightford 〈…〉 g●●●● with h●●●●han said 〈…〉 if ●●●tye had 〈…〉 ha●● n●● they●● als●● 〈…〉 the master said I had the cut the one with the other and than answered Howleglas ye bade me cut all upon on last than answered the show maker if that I should keep you long you will make me so poor that I must needs go a begging but now give me money for myledder that thou haste marred me and depart fro hence Than answered Howleglas to the show maker the hide of a bull will make two hides and with those words arose he & said in this house have I been/ but I will not come here again and so departed he fro thence.   

¶ How Howleglas sold courdes for fat.  
〈…〉 Howleglas had destroyed much 〈…〉 the showemakers wherefore the 〈…〉 ●●s very sorry and that hearing 〈…〉 ●●ned again to the town and 〈…〉 ●●r and told him that he had a 〈…〉 ●●lde his master that he shul●● 〈…〉 ●●e for to restore him part of 〈…〉 ●●d done to him before in his 〈…〉 showemaker said if it be 〈…〉 ●●me have it before another 〈…〉 Howleglas with a good will 〈◊〉 〈…〉 ●●tud than went Howleglas 〈…〉 and made hym●yll twelve ●●relles with towedes for a little money and than took he a little tallow and put in the barrels four inches thick as thowghe it had been all together grease and closed it so close that it should not stink for it was in the winter when there was a great frost that the dirt was fast frozen to the barrel and the other vi barrels he filled with other tallow or fat more thicker than the other vi were for they were the example of his merchandise And when that he had dressed all the barrels he sense for his master the showemaker and asked him if that he would come see the merchandise and he said he would/ than with in a while came the showemaker to Howleglas and when he was come there Howleglas made the heads of the best barrels to be broken up when the cordeenr saw the barrels they licked him very well and than Howleglas asked him how the barrels pleased him & he answered very well and than asked he the price and than answered Howleglas ye shall ●●ue me no more than xxiiij guyld●r● twelve in ho●de & the other xii. at the years end And than was the showemaker content and thought no decente & gave to him the twelve guildes in hand and he reserved the money and departed & was glad and the cordener was glad of the bargain & thought that the foresaid harm that he had done him should be restored/ and than he h●●red many fellows to melt the tallow and brought one barrel by the fire and when the dirt began for to wax whore than began it to smell than said the one to the other Iwene some of us hath beshytyn their breach and than came the master and bad them make clean their shown for one of you hath trod in a courde and they looked all a bout but they found nothing. And than should they have put one of that barrels in the cauderne than saw they well that it was the barrel that stank for it was full of turds/ And chan they left their work & went for to seek Howleglas but he was gone and so the showemaker must suffer the last loss with the fyeste.   

¶ How Howleglas served a Tailor.  
ON a time served Howleglas a tailor and the tailor asked him if that he culde sow well and close that no man cause the seem/ and than said Howleglas yea than went Howleglas & sowed under a barrel than said his master what dost thou now this is a meruelows● sowing/ than answered Howleglas I sow so cloche that no man cause as ye bade me nor I myself see not Than answered his master good servant I meant not so but some that every man ma● see & he s●●d he wol●● than the third night the master ●ad laboured so sore ●●●t he must needs sleep them cast he ●o Howleglas a husbands māgowne● bade him 〈◊〉 a wolf & make it 〈◊〉 and than said How●●●●● I shall do than 〈◊〉 ●●he to bed than cut Howleglas the husband's man gown and made thereof a wolf with head and fe●e And when that he had sowed it together than set he it upon the table with stan●● Than in the morning arose his master 〈◊〉 came down and when he saw the wolf s●●●dynge upon the table he was afraid & 〈◊〉 him what he had done/ And he said ma●●●●● I have made a wolf as ye bade me/ than say●● the master meant that ye should have made up 〈◊〉 russet gown for a husbands man gown ●● called here a wolf Than answered Howleglas 〈◊〉 that I had known that before I would have done so for I had liefer have made a gown than a wolf/ and than at the last was the mays●●●●●tence And within. iiij. days after watched the master so much he must needs go sleep and there was a cote ready made but it lacked the sleeves than the master took the cote & the sleeves and gave them to Howleglas and bade him that he should cast on the sleeves and he said he would than went his master to bed and than took Howleglas the cote & hung it on a baulk & set on every side a candle and stood up and cast the sleeves at the Coat all the night long and than a rose the the tailor and that spied Howleglas and caste the sleeves more faster than he did before at the cote/ and that asspyed the tailor and said what foolish toche is that that you do there And 〈◊〉 answered Howleglas very angrily this is 〈◊〉 foolish toche for I have stand all the night he recasting the sleeves at the cote and they will not bide thereon and now I see it is but lost labour/ Than said the master to Howleglas it is my fault for I went that ye would have understand me better for I meant that you should have sowed on the sleeves to the cote Than said Howleglas to his master the devil take you for if ye had said so to me before I might have sowed on the sleeves and have gone slept but now master go you and sow all the day long and I will go sleep/ And than answered the tailor have I hired you to sleep/ & thus began they to chide & as they were thus chiding the tailor bade him pay for his candles that he had by●ned that night and than Howleglas spoke never a word more but took all his clothes and went his way and ●am no more there.