Peter Alphonse

“ And if one is so weak that he can not eat, the others refuse to eat until he is taken away. And since these peasants desired to assume the nature and manner of an animal, they should have followed the nature of the gentlest animal ”

“ The burgeis forsoth seyng that saiden vnto hemsilf: 'We have but litel brede and our felaw is a grete eter, wherfor it bihovith vs to have covmsaile how we may withdrawe from hym a part of [his] brede, and that vs ought to ete alonly ete we.' Than thei token counsaile in this maner that thei shuld do make a cake or a lof baken, and while it baked thei slept and everiche of the Burgeis dreamed a woundirful swevene. ”

“ I seeyng thiese thynges [and] never trowyng of (f. 129) yowre comymg ageyn, aros and eete vp the brede'." [And the fader] : "And so my sone, it happened and cam so to, that thai whiche wold han disceived their felaw that with his wit thei wern disceived." [8]
Then the son: "It happened to them as it is told in the proverb: 'He who wanted all lost all.' Such also is the nature of the dog whom they resemble: one of them tries to take away another's food. But if they followed the instinct of the camel they would imitate a gentler nature ”