Peter Alphonse

“ A certain philosopher said to his son: "Son, refrain from passing through the house of wicked people, for passing results in stopping, and stopping leads to sitting and sitting ends in a deed. It is related, by way of illustration, that two priests went forth from the city one evening for a walk, and they came to a house where some drinkers had met together. ”

“ The whiche asked suche a thyng as for to be a porter at oon of the yates of the Citee bi the space of a Moneth, and to have of every courbed man a peny [2] and of every ooneyed a peny, of every scald a peny, of every lepre a peny, of every Roughhered a peny (f. 122b) . Whiche that the Kyng graunted and strengthed with his seale; whiche in his mynisterie taken and in his seruice and office sat at the yaate. In a day suche a courbed and wele hooded [man] beryng a staf in his hand wold han entred. To whom the versifiour mette askyng hym a peny, whiche he denyed. ”