There was a certaine gentilman he as suche
sort of men do, vsed much huntyng in the cuntre, where
he happened on a younge damoysell, a very pore womans
child on whom he doted a man well stryken in age, and
for her sake he lay often out of his owne house his
excuse was hunting. This mans wife an exceding
honest woman, halfe deale suspecte the mater, tried
out her husbandes falshed, on a tyme when he had
taken his iourney fourth of the town vnto some other
waies, she wente vnto that poore cotage and boulted out
all the hoole matter, where he laye on nights, wheron
he dranke, what thyng thei had to welcom him
withall. There was neither one thyng nor other, but
bare walles. This good woman returned home, and sone
after came againe brynginge with her a good soft bed,
and al therto belongyng and certain plate besydes that
she gaue them moneye, chargynge them that if the
Gentilman came agayne, they shold entreate him better
not beyng knowen al this while that she was his wyfe,
but fayued her to be her sister. Not long after her
husband stale thether againe, he sawe the howse
otherwyse decked, and better fare then he was wounte to
haue.
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