But in conclusion her spech
encresed day by day and she was so curst of condycyon
that euery daie she brauled and chyd with her husbande,
so muche at the laste he was more weped, and had much
more trouble and disease wyth her shrewed wordes then
he hadde before when she was dumme, wherfore as he
walked another time alone he happened to mete agayne
with the same personne that taught hym the sayde
medycine and sayde to hym thys wyse. Syr ye taught me a
medicin but late to make my domme wyfe to speake,
byddynge me lay an aspen leafe vnder her toung when
she sleapte, and I layde three Aspen leaves there.
Wherfore nowe she speaketh. But yet she speaketh soo
much & so shrewdlye that I am more werier of her now,
then I was when she was domme: Wherfore I praie you
teache me a medycine to modyfye her that she speake not
so muche. This other answered and sayd thus. Sir I am a
deuyl of hel but I am one of them that haue least
power there. Al be yet I haue power to make a woman
to speake, but and yf a woman begin ones to speake, I
nor al the deuyls in hel that haue the mooste power be
not able to make a woman to be styll, nor to cause her
to leue speakyng.
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