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''Master''. What have you to say, Baker ? What is the use of your craft, or can we live our life without you ? <br>|- valign="top"'''''Baker'''''. You might indeed, for a while, live your life without me, but not for long, nor well; for without my craft, every table would seem empty, and without bread all food would be distasteful. I stablish the heart of man, I am the strength of men, and even the little ones cannot pass me by.<br>|- valign="top"

''Master''. What shall we say of the Cook ? Do we in any way need his craft ? <br>|- valign="top"'''''Cook'''''. If you drive me out of your society, you will have to eat your vegetables and your meat raw, and anyhow you cannot have good gravy without my craft. <br>|- valign="top"''Master''. We do not care about your craft, nor is it necessary for us, for we can ourselves cook the things that need to be cooked, and roast what has to be roasted. <br>|- valign="top"''Cook''. If therefore you drive me out, to do as you say, then you will all be servants, and none of you will be master, and yet without my craft you will not be able to bite your food. <br>|- valign="top"

''Master''. Monk, who hast spoken to me already, behold I find that you have good companions, and very necessary ones, who are they ? <br>|- valign="top"''Scholar''. I have smiths, iron smiths, '''''goldsmiths''''', '''''silver smiths''''', '''''brass smiths''''', carpenters, and many other workmen skilled in various arts. <br>|- valign="top"

|<br><div id="Councillor"></div><br>''Master''. || <br>Have you any wise councillor ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Scholar''. || Certainly we have. How could our society be ruled if we had no councillor? <br>|- valign="top"| ||(Here the Councillor comes forward.) <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || What say you, Wise one? What art seems to you to hold the first place amongst all these ? <br>|- valign="top"|'''''Councillor'''''. || I say to thee, that the service of God holds the primary place among these arts, as we read in the Gospel " Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || And which do you think among secular crafts holds the first place ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Councillor''. || Agriculture; because the ploughman feeds us all. <br>|- valign="top"

|<br><div id="Blacksmith"></div>||<br>(The Blacksmith now speaks.) <br>|- valign="top"|'''''Blacksmith'''''. || How does the ploughman get his plough or his ploughshare, or his goad, but by my craft? How does the fisherman obtain his hook, or the shoemaker his awl, or the tailor his needle, but by my work ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Councillor''. || What you say is indeed true : but we all prefer to be guests of the ploughman, rather than yours ; for the ploughman gives us bread and drink, and what do you give us in your workshop but sparks of iron, and the noise of hammers striking, and bellows blowing ? <br>|- valign="top"

|<br><div id="Woodman"></div>||<br>(The Woodman speaks.) <br>|- valign="top"|'''''Woodman'''''. || Which of you does not avail himself of my craft, when I make houses, and various utensils and boats for you all? <br>|- valign="top"|''Blacksmith''. || Woodman, why do you talk like that, when you could not pierce a single aperture without my craft ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Councillor''. || friends, and good workmen ! Let us quickly cease from these contentions, and let there be peace and concord between us, and let each of us help the other by his art, and let us always meet at the ploughman's, where we find food for ourselves, and fodder for our horses, and this advice I give to workmen, that each should diligently practise his craft : for every one who forsakes his art is forsaken by his art : whether thou art a priest, or a monk, or a layman, or a scholar, practise thyself in this, be what thou art, for it is a great loss and shame to a man to be unwilling to be what he is, and what he ought to be. <br>|}