ked soureli vpon his doughter, as though he had
bene horne woode with her, he began to reherse how
foule a beaste she was, how he feared many tymes that
she neuer haue bestowed her. And yet sayde he much a
doe, vnto my great coste and charg, I haue gotten the
one that moughte lye by any Ladyes syde, and she were a
quene and yet thou not perceiuying what I haue done for
the nor knowynge that thou hast suche a man whiche but
of his goodnes myghte thynke thee to euill to be stoye
in his kytchen, thou contrariest al his mind to make a
short tale he spake so sharpely to her, that she feared
that he wold haue beaten her. It is a man of asubtyll
and wylye wytte, whyche wythout a vysarde is ready to
playe anye maner of parte. Then this yonge wife what
for feare, and for trouthe of the matter, cleane
stryken oute of countenaunce, fell downe at her fathers
fete desyryng hym that he wolde forgette and forgiue
her all that was past and euer after she woulde doe her
duetye Her father forgaue her, and promised that she
shoulde finde him a kynd and a louynge father, yf so be
that she perfourmed her promyse. xantippa. How dyd she
afterwarde? Eulalya, when she was departed from her
father she came backe into a chaumber, and there by
chaunce found her husband alone she fel on her knees to
hym and said. Man in tymes paste, I neyther knewe you
nor my selfe, from this daye froward ye shall se me
cleane chaunged, onelye pardon that is past, with that
her husbande toke her in his armes & kyssed her sayinge
she should lacke nothyng yf she woulde holde her in
that mind. xantip. Why did she continue so. Eulalya.
Euen tyll her endynge daye, nor there was none so vyle
a thynge but that she woulde laye handes on it redely
with all her herte, if her husband wolde let her, so
great loue was begon and assured betwene them and
many a daye after, shee thanked god that euer she met
with such a man. For yf she had not she sayd she had
ben cleane caste awaye. xan. We haue as greate plentie
of suche housbandes, as of white crowes. Eulalya. Now,
but for werieng you? I coulde tell you a thynge that
chaunced a late in this same citye. xantyppa. I haue
litell to doe, and I lyke your communicacyon very well.
Eulalia. 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
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