Book, Chapter

 1 Life    |     eleven Bookes of the ‘Golden Asse’, are enriched with such
 2 Life    |        The Bookes of the ‘Golden Asse’, for the passing stile
 3 Life    |        more acceptable than this Asse of Gold indeed. Howbeit
 4    3, 17|         Bird, was turned into an Asse, and how he was led away
 5    3, 17|        was no bird, but a plaine Asse.~The I though to blame Fotis,
 6    3, 17|   delivered from the shape of an Asse, and become my Lucius againe.
 7    3, 17|         shouldst not continue an Asse one nights space, but in
 8    3, 17|         I that was now a perfect asse, and for Lucius a brute
 9    3, 17|     horse, where I found another asse of Milos, somtime my host,
10    3, 17|        For see, my horse and the asse as it were consented together
11    3, 17|       shall wee suffer this wild Asse, that doth not onely eat
12    3, 17|       nothing differ from a dead asse: wherfore I determined with
13    3, 17|          for me, lest if from an asse I should become a man, I
14    4, 18|      together did give me, poore asse, cause to deeme the same,
15    4, 18|        myne own horse and Miloes Asse would not suffer me to feed
16    4, 18|         I should presently of an Asse be changed into Lucius out
17    4, 18|     myself that I was no more an Asse, but a swift coursing horse:
18    4, 19|     consideration; for the other Asse being of the same purpose
19    4, 19|         a dead or rather a stony asse? let us bee gone: and so
20    4, 19|     deceit, and to play the good Asse to get my masters favour,
21    4, 19|    consider you whether I was an Asse in judgement and sence,
22    4, 19|      more by this horse and this Asse. But you that have roved
23    4, 21| beautiful, that though I were an Asse, yet I had a great affection
24    4, 21|           that she made me poore Asse likewise to weepe, and thus
25    4, 22|       way, thou shalt see a lame Asse carrying of wood, and a
26    4, 22|   Psyches had passed by the lame Asse, paid her halfe pennie for
27    4, 22|      captive maiden: but I poore Asse, not standing farre of,
28    4, 23|      with this lame Ill favoured Asse, that is not worth the meate
29    4, 23|          shape and travell of an Asse, but also a skinne so soft
30    4, 23|       sustained. And thou little Asse, that art the occasion of
31    4, 23|      bookes of Doctours, that an Asse saved the life of a young
32    4, 23|          under the shape of this Asse, is hidden the figure of
33    4, 23|  determined already of this dull Asse, that eateth more then he
34    4, 23|          ordained: for first the Asse shall be slaine as you have
35    4, 23|       and parch the belly of the Asse, shee shall abide the gallows
36    4, 23|          within the paunch of an Asse: secondly her nosethrilles
37    4, 23|         within the skinne of the Asse: This being said, all the
38    4, 23|     consented, and when I (poore Asse) heard and understood all
39    5, 24|         changed into a miserable Asse, then had I no small occasion
40    5, 24|       turned into a foure footed Asse, in most vile and abject
41    5, 24|      attire, and mounted upon an Asse, that carryed barly sheafes,
42    5, 25|     CHAPTER~How the death of the Asse, and the Gentlewoman was
43    5, 25|          virgin, and to me poore Asse. But they staied hereupon
44    5, 25|  depended in the judgement of an Asse.~
45    5, 26|       not ignorant to so wise an Asse) that he was not the notable
46    5, 27|          triumph sitting upon an Asse. Then I (willing to shew
47    5, 27|      shee transformed me into an Asse, and not into a dogge, because
48    5, 27|      thanks and honours being an Asse, they would much more reward
49    5, 27|     cursed queane made me a mill Asse, and (beating me with a
50    5, 27|       more puissant then a poore Asse, were jealous over me, and (
51    5, 28|       Apuleius was made a common Asse to fetch home wood, and
52    5, 28|     nourish and keepe this fiery Asse in vaine?~
53    5, 29|          see this slow and dulle Asse, who besides all the mischiefes
54    5, 29|        of this common adulterous Asse? My sonne (quoth he) let
55    5, 29|      offence to kill so faire an Asse, and so (by accusation of
56    5, 30|      espying me alone as a stray Asse) tooke me up and roade upon
57    5, 30|      which hast stollen away our Asse? Why dost thou not rather
58    5, 30|         boy, but onely found the Asse loose and straying abroad,
59    5, 30|         God (quoth he) that this Asse (which verely was never
60    6, 36|          dayes, and that I poore Asse and the other horses were
61    6, 36|          we here with this wilde Asse, this feeble beast, this
62    6, 36|       that under the shape of an Asse there were some well advised
63    6, 36|         leap upon him like a mad Asse, to the intent he should
64    6, 36|         perceived that it was an Asse, they began to provoke him,
65    6, 36|       his Maidens, but rather an Asse for himselfe. Howbeit (quoth
66    6, 36|         merrily saying, O master Asse, you are very welcome, now
67    6, 36|  likewise desire the bloud of an Asse. After they were wearie
68    6, 36|        that brought barly to the Asse that carried the goddesse,
69    6, 36|       towne seeking for a straie Asse, that they had lost the
70    6, 36|       counsel, cary this strange Asse out into some secret place
71    7, 37|           I think that this rude Asse be dead. So think I (quoth
72    7, 39|        taken from the mill as an Asse unapt, and put to some other
73    7, 39|          gave great thanks to my Asse for me, in that by this
74    7, 40|         of Fotis, who made me an Asse, in stead of a Bird, did
75    7, 41|     blind face of yonder scabbed Asse. Then the old woman answered,
76    7, 41|   committed, that drave me poore Asse, and the other Horses the
77    7, 41|        question, how I, being an Asse, and tyed alwayes in the
78    7, 41|   notwithstanding my shape of an Asse, I had the sence and knowledge
79    7, 43|        whither he roade with his Asse? Marry (quoth he) to the
80    7, 43|          affirming that his slow Asse, welnigh dead with sicknesse,
81    7, 43|         to hide himselfe and his Asse in some secret place, untill
82    7, 43|        find neither Gardener nor Asse, there was a great contention
83    7, 43|     Proverbe: ‘The shadow of the Asse.’~
84    8, 44|         as seemed to me) like an Asse of armes. For on the one
85    8, 45|      much a foole, or so very an Asse, to leave the dainty meats,
86    8, 45|          for I played the honest Asse, taking but a little of
87    8, 45|        not imagin or thinke, the Asse who stood alone there, would
88    8, 45|        gorge and appetite of the Asse. Their laughing was so immoderate
89    8, 45|         met such meates as every Asse doth abhorre: for they put
90    8, 45|      which done, carry it to the Asse, and say that I have drunke
91    8, 45|       the Gentleman that hath an Asse, that will eate and drinke
92    8, 46|         What, shall we suffer an Asse to play the Philosopher?
93    8, 46|        was so tame and gentle an Asse, I stole out of the gate
94    9, 47|         from me my shape of mine Asse, and render to me my pristine
95    9, 47|         the skin and shape of an Asse, which kind of beast I have
96    9, 47|          of gold in his hand: an Asse which had wings glewed to
97    9, 47|          was transformed from an asse to my humane shape, I hid
98    9, 47|        the night before being an Asse. There after the images
99    9, 48|       Fotis by errour made me an Asse, bringing with him my horse,