The Story of the three Men and their Bag of Money

In *Tales, and quicke Answers, very mery, and pleasant to rede*, is the following, with the title "Howe Demosthenes defended a Mayde:"— "There were two men on a time, the whiche lefte a great somme of money in kepyng with a maiden, on this condition, that she shulde nat delyuer hit agayne, except they came bothe to gether for hit. Nat lang after one of them cam to hir mornyngly arrayde, and sayde that his felowe was deed, and so required the money, and she delyuered it to hem. Shortly came the tother man, and required to have the moneye that was lefte with her in kepyng. The maiden was than so…