“Sir,” said they, “all the money we have got.”
“Give me the money,” said the courtier; and began with the first, and gave a recommendibus over the shoulders, which made him groan, saying, “Here is one;” and so he served them all, that they groaned at the matter. When he came to the last, he paid him well, saying—
“Here is the twelfth man.”
“God’s blessing on thy heart for finding out our dear brother.”
Tale Sixth.
A man’s wife of Gotham had a child, and the father bid the gossips, which were children of eight or ten years of age. The eldest child’s name, who was to be godfather, was called Gilbert, the second child’s name was Humphrey, and the godmother’s name was Christabel. The friends of all of them did admonish them, saying, that divers of times they must say after the priest. When they were all come to the church-door, the priest said—
“Be you all agreed of the name?”
“Be you all,” said Gilbert, “agreed of the name?”
The priest then said—