Tarltons
newes
out
of
Purgatorie
.
Onely
such
a
iest
as
his
Iigge
,
fit
for
Gentlemen
to
laugh
at
an
houre
,
&c.
Published
by
an
old
Companion
of
his
,
Robin
Goodfellow
.
AT
LONDON
,
Printed
for
T.
G.
and
T.
N.
1590.
The
Contents
of
the
whole
booke
.
-
The
tale
of
Pope
Boniface
,
and
why
he
wore
a
Millers
cap
,
and
a
malkin
in
Purgatorie
.
fol.
4
-
What
kind
of
men
those
be
that
God
neuer
made
.
6
-
What
creatures
those
be
,
that
in
sight
are
Carnations
,
in
smell
Roses
,
in
hearing
Syrens
,
in
touching
Nettles
,
and
in
tast
wormewood
.
9
-
What
occupations
take
more
paines
about
God
,
then
the
Pope
.
10
-
The
tale
of
Fryer
Onyon
,
why
in
Purgatorie
he
was
tormented
with
Waspes
.
13
-
The
tale
of
the
three
Cuckolds
,
of
their
Impresses
,
&
Mottoes
.
21
-
The
tale
of
the
Cooke
,
and
why
he
sate
in
Purgatorie
with
a
Cranes
leg
in
his
mouth
.
22
-
The
tale
of
the
Vickar
of
Bergamo
,
and
why
hee
sits
with
a
coale
in
his
mouth
in
Purgatorie
.
29
-
The
tale
of
the
Painter
of
Doncaster
,
&
why
in
Purgatorie
he
was
beaten
with
a
bell
rope
.
33
-
Why
the
gentlewoman
of
Lyons
sate
with
hir
haire
clipt
off
in
Purgatorie
.
38
-
The
tale
of
two
Louers
of
Pisa
,
and
why
they
were
whipt
in
Purgatorie
with
Nettles
.
42
To
the
Gentlemen
Readers
,
Health
.
GEntlemen
,
the
Horse
when
hee
is
first
handed
to
the
warres
,
starteth
at
the
cracke
of
euery
peece
;
and
euery
coucht
Launce
is
a
censure
of
death
to
a
fresh
water
Souldier
:
So
fareth
it
with
mee
,
for
neuer
before
being
in
print
I
start
at
the
sight
of
the
Presse
,
and
hauing
not
dared
to
looke
into
the
open
light
,
I
feared
with
the
Owle
to
fly
before
it
be
twylight
:
yet
I
haue
heard
others
whose
bookes
haue
past
your
view
,
account
you
so
fauorable
,
curteous
and
affable
,
shrouding
euery
scape
with
silence
;
that
I
presumed
the
rather
to
experience
with
them
the
hope
of
your
fauours
:
which
if
I
finde
as
they
haue
done
,
though
I
bee
blinde
Bayard
,
yet
I
will
in
the
thickest
of
the
mire
plunge
vp
to
the
Saddle
for
your
sakes
.
Virgill
afore
he
wrote
his
Aeneidos
,
wrote
his
Culex
;
and
assaide
in
trifles
,
afore
he
attempted
in
Triumphs
.
Lucan
wrote
Quaedam
Lirica
,
before
he
began
with
Bellumper
Emathios
plusquam
Ciuilia
campos
.
Roome
was
not
builded
on
a
day
,
and
men
that
venter
little
,
hazard
little
:
So
gentlemen
,
I
present
you
with
a
toy
of
Tarltons
,
called
his
newes
out
of
Purgatory
;
which
I
desire
you
accept
as
curteously
as
I
offer
willing
to
to
please
:
Though
they
be
Crepundia
yet
reade
them
,
and
if
you
find
any
pleasant
Facetia
,
or
Quicquid
Salis
▪
thinke
all
sauory
,
and
so
pleasde
without
being
satirically
peremptory
:
for
Momus
will
haue
a
mouth
full
of
inuectiues
,
and
Zoilus
should
not
be
Zoilus
if
hee
were
not
squint
eide
.
Therefore
leauing
their
humours
to
the
wordmongers
of
mallice
that
like
the
Vipers
grew
odious
to
their
owne
kinde
,
hoping
of
your
curteous
censure
,
I
bid
you
farewell
.
Tarltons
newes
out
of
Purgatorie
.
SOrrowing
as
most
men
doe
for
the
death
of
Richard
Tarlton
,
in
that
his
particular
losse
was
a
generall
lament
to
all
that
coueted
,
either
to
satisfie
their
eies
with
his
Clownish
gesture
,
or
their
eares
with
his
wittyiests
.
The
wonted
desire
to
see
plaies
left
me
,
in
that
although
I
sawe
as
rare
showes
,
and
heard
as
lofty
verse
,
yet
I
inioied
not
those
woonted
sports
that
flowed
from
him
as
from
a
fountain
,
of
pleasing
and
merry
conceits
.
For
although
he
was
only
superficially
seene
in
learning
,
hauing
no
more
but
a
bare
insight
into
the
Latine
tongue
,
yet
hee
had
such
a
prompt
witte
,
that
he
seemed
to
haue
that
Salem
ingenij
,
which
Tullie
so
highly
commends
in
his
Orator
.
Well
,
howsoeuer
either
naturall
,
or
artificiall
,
or
both
,
he
was
a
mad
merry
companion
,
desired
and
loued
of
all
:
amongst
the
rest
of
whose
welwishers
myselfe
being
not
the
least
,
after
his
death
I
mourned
in
conceit
,
and
absented
my selfe
from
all
plaies
,
as
wanting
that
merry
Roscius
of
Plaiers
,
that
famozed
all
Comedies
so
with
his
pleasant
and
extemporall
inuenti●n
:
yet
at
last
,
as
the
longest
Sommers
day
hath
his
night
,
so
this
dumpe
had
an
ende
:
and
forsooth
vpon
whitson
monday
last
I
would
néedes
to
the
Theatre
to
sée
a
play
:
where
when
I
came
,
I
founde
such
concourse
of
vnruely
people
,
that
I
thought
it
better
solitary
to
walke
in
the
fieldes
,
then
to
intermeddle
my selfe
amongst
such
a
great
presse
.
Feeding
mine
humour
with
this
fancie
I
stept
by
dame
Anne
of
Cléeres
well
,
&
went
by
the
backside
of
Hogsdon
:
where
finding
the
Sun
to
bee
hot
,
and
séeing
a
faire
tree
that
had
a
coole
shade
,
I
sate
me
downe
to
take
the
aire
,
where
after
I
had
rested
me
a
while
I
fell
a
sléepe
:
As
thus
I
lay
in
a
slumber
,
mée
thought
I
saw
one
attired
in
russet
with
a
but
tond
cap
on
his
head
,
a
great
bagge
by
his
side
,
and
a
strong
bat
in
his
hand
,
so
artificially
attyred
for
a
Clowne
,
as
I
began
to
call
Tarltons
woonted
shape
to
remembrance
,
as
he
drew
more
néere
and
hee
came
within
the
compasse
of
mine
eie
,
to
iudge
it
was
no
other
but
the
very
ghost
of
Richard
Tarlton
,
which
pale
and
wan
sate
him
down
by
me
on
the
grasse
.
I
that
knewe
him
to
be
deade
at
this
sodaine
sight
fell
into
a
great
feare
,
insomuch
that
I
swet
in
my
sleepe
:
which
he
perceiuing
,
with
his
woonted
conntenance
full
of
smiles
began
to
comfort
me
thus
.
What
olde
acquaintance
,
a
man
or
a
mouse
?
Hast
thou
not
heard
me
verefie
,
that
a
Souldier
is
a
souldier
if
he
haue
but
a
blew
hose
on
his
head
?
Feare
not
me
man
,
I
am
but
Dick
Tarlton
that
coulde
quaint
it
in
the
Court
,
and
clowne
it
on
the
stage
:
that
had
a
quart
of
wine
for
my
friend
,
and
as
word
for
my
foe
:
who
hurt
none
beeing
aliue
,
and
will
not
preiudice
any
being
dead
:
f●r
although
thou
sée
me
here
in
the
likenes
of
a
spirite
,
yet
thinke
mee
to
bee
one
of
those
Familiares
Lares
that
were
rather
pleasantly
disposed
then
indued
with
any
hurtfull
influence
,
as
Hob
Thrust
,
Robin
Goodfellowe
and
such
like
spirites
(
as
they
terme
them
of
the
buttry
)
famozed
in
euerie
olde
wiues
Chronicle
for
their
mad
merry
pranckes
.
Therefore
sith
my
appearance
to
thée
is
in
resemblance
of
a
spirite
,
thinke
that
I
am
as
pleasant
a
goblin
as
the
rest
,
and
will
make
thée
as
merry
before
I
part
,
as
euer
Robin
Goodfellow
made
the
country
wenches
at
their
Creame
boules
.
With
this
he
drew
more
neere
me
and
I
starting
backe
cried
out
:
In
nomine
Iesu
,
auoid
Sathan
for
Ghost
thou
art
none
,
but
a
very
di●el
(
for
the
soules
of
them
which
are
departed
)
if
the
sacred
principles
of
Theologie
bee
true
)
neuer
returne
into
the
world
againe
till
the
generall
resurrection
:
for
either
are
they
pla●st
in
heauen
,
from
whence
they
come
not
to
intangle
themselues
with
other
cares
,
but
sit
continually
before
the
seate
of
the
Lambe
singing
Alleluia
to
the
highest
,
or
else
they
are
in
hell
:
and
this
is
a
profound
and
certain
Aphorisme
,
Ab
inferis
nulla
est
redemptio
:
vpon
these
conclusiue
premisses
depart
from
mee
Sathan
the
resemblance
of
whom
soeuer
thou
dost
carry
.
At
this
pitching
his
staffe
downe
on
the
end
,
&
crossing
one
leg
ouer
an
other
,
he
answered
thus
:
why
you
horeson
dunce
,
think
you
to
set
Dick
Tarlton
Non
plus
with
your
Aphorismes
?
No
,
I
haue
yet
left
one
chapter
of
choplodgicke
to
tewslite
you
withall
,
that
were
you
as
good
as
George
a
Gréene
I
would
not
take
the
foile
at
your
hands
:
and
that
is
this
,
I
perceiue
by
your
arguments
your
inward
opinion
,
and
by
your
wise
discretion
what
pottage
you
loue
:
I
sée
no
sooner
a
rispe
at
the
howse
end
or
a
Maipole
before
the
doore
,
but
I
cry
there
is
,
a
paltrie
Alehowse
:
and
as
soone
as
I
heare
the
principles
of
your
religion
,
I
can
say
,
oh
there
is
a
Caluinist
:
what
doe
you
make
heauen
and
hell
Contraria
immediata
,
so
contrarie
,
that
there
is
no
meane
betwixt
them
,
but
that
either
a
mans
soule
must
in
post
hast
goe
presently
to
God
,
or
else
with
a
whirlewind
and
a
vengeance
goe
to
the
diuell
?
yes
,
yes
my
good
brother
,
there
is
Quoddam
tertium
a
third
place
that
all
our
great
grandmothers
haue
talkt
of
,
that
Dant
hath
so
learnedly
writ
of
,
and
that
is
Purgatorie
.
What
syr
are
we
wiser
then
all
our
forefathers
?
and
they
not
onely
feared
that
place
in
life
,
but
found
it
after
their
death
:
or
els
was
there
much
land
and
annuall
pensions
giuen
in
vaine
to
morrowmasse
priests
for
dirges
,
trentals
and
such
like
decretals
of
deuotion
,
whereby
the
soules
in
Purgatorie
were
the
sooner
aduanced
into
the
quiet
estate
of
heauen
.
Nay
more
,
how
many
Popes
&
holy
Bishops
of
Rome
,
whose
Cannons
ācnot
erre
,
haue
taught
vs
what
this
Purgatorie
is
?
And
yet
if
thou
wert
so
incredulous
that
thou
wouldest
neither
beleeue
our
olde
beldames
,
nor
the
good
Bishops
:
yet
take
Dicke
Tarlton
once
for
thine
Author
,
who
is
nowe
come
from
Purgatorie
,
and
if
any
vpstart
Protestant
denie
,
if
thou
hast
no
place
of
scripture
ready
to
confirme
it
,
say
as
Pithagoras
schollers
did
(
Ipse
dixit
)
and
to
all
bon
companions
●t
shall
stand
for
a
principle
.
I
coulde
not
but
smile
at
the
madde
merry
doctrine
of
my
friend
Richard
,
and
therefore
taking
heart
at
grasse
drawing
more
neere
him
▪
I
praied
him
to
tell
me
what
Purgatorie
is
,
&
what
they
be
that
are
resident
there
:
as
one
willing
to
doe
mee
such
a
fauour
,
he
sate
him
downe
and
began
thus
.
¶
Tarltons
description
of
Purgatorie
.
AFter
thy
breath
hath
left
thy
body
,
and
thy
soule
is
set
frée
from
this
vile
prison
of
earth
,
where
it
hath
been
long
inclosed
,
then
dooth
it
wander
forward
into
a
fa●
broade
way
,
where
at
the
tourning
of
a
crosse
there
are
thrée
passages
,
one
on
the
right
hand
,
and
that
is
very
narrow
and
leadeth
vnto
heauen
:
The
second
on
the
left
hand
,
is
broad
and
faire
,
ouer
a
greene
vale
,
and
that
conducteth
vnto
hell
:
now
betwixt
these
is
there
a
lane
neither
to
broade
nor
to
narrow
,
and
that
is
the
〈◊〉
way
to
Purgatory
:
wherin
after
you
haue
wandered
a
while
,
you
come
to
a
bridge
,
framed
all
of
Néedle
points
and
ouer
that
must
you
passe
bare
footed
,
as
the
first
penance
for
your
formost
offences
.
Then
sir
to
haue
a
little
ease
after
that
sharpe
absolution
,
shall
you
come
into
a
faire
medow
,
and
that
is
all
ouergrowne
with
Aue
maries
and
creedes
,
this
is
to
put
you
in
remembrance
of
our
Ladies
P●alter
,
which
if
you
can
say
a
hundreth
&
fifty
times
ouer
before
you
passe
the
meadow
,
you
escape
passing
ouer
a
whole
field
of
hot
burning
ploughshares
,
that
day
and
night
lie
glowing
hot
for
such
purposes
:
after
these
and
a
many
moe
of
other
miseries
,
which
I
am
by
the
law
forbidden
to
vtter
,
you
come
to
purgatorie
gate
,
where
for
an
entring
penny
,
you
haue
fortie
lashes
with
a
whip
as
ill
as
euer
were
giuen
in
Bridewell
:
then
are
you
admitted
entrance
.
At
the
first
you
shall
come
into
a
very
sumptuous
hall
,
richelie
hanged
with
tapistrie
,
so
fine
and
so
curious
,
that
the
most
cutthroate
Broaker
in
England
would
take
the
worst
of
the
hangings
for
a
sufficient
pawne
:
In
this
hall
shall
you
see
an
infinite
number
of
seates
,
formed
and
seated
like
an
Amphitheater
:
wherein
are
roially
,
nay
more
then
roially
placed
all
the
Popes
,
except
the
first
thirty
after
Christ
,
and
they
went
presentlie
to
heauen
:
and
the
reason
was
,
because
Purgatorie
was
then
but
a
building
,
and
not
fully
finished
.
In
those
seates
I
say
the
popes
sit
triumphantlie
with
their
pontificalibus
,
and
their
triple
crownes
,
but
yet
abiding
paines
of
purgatorie
,
aswell
as
the
meanest
in
all
the
house
,
equally
proportioned
according
to
the
measure
of
their
sinnes
:
some
for
false
wresting
the
scriptures
,
others
for
ambition
,
some
for
couetousnesse
,
gluttonie
,
extortion
,
symonie
,
wrath
,
pride
,
enuie
,
many
for
sloth
,
and
idlenesse
:
and
some
I
can
tell
you
haue
come
thither
for
wenching
matters
,
that
s
counted
in
Rome
but
a
ve●iall
sinne
,
and
therfore
thrée
dirges
and
two
tapers
offered
to
the
picture
of
old
Pasquille
,
is
sufficient
to
wipe
away
so
small
an
offence
.
But
amongst
all
the
rest
two
of
them
made
me
to
maruell
at
the
strangnesse
of
the
punishment
:
The
first
was
Boniface
the
fourth
,
and
he
sat
in
this
order
.
He
was
richly
attired
in
his
pontificalibus
,
and
somwhat
more
rich
then
the
rest
,
but
vpon
his
head
,
in
stead
of
his
triple
crowne
,
he
wore
a
dustie
millers
cap
:
and
whereas
other
Popes
held
in
their
right
hand
the
keyes
of
heauen
,
and
in
the
left
the
sworde
of
Paule
,
he
held
betwéene
both
his
hands
a
durtie
malkin
,
such
as
Bakers
sweepe
their
Ouens
withall
,
and
right
ouer
his
head
was
written
this
old
adage
in
Latin
:
Ne
sutor
vltra
crepidam
.
And
because
thou
shalt
know
the
reason
why
we
was
thus
punished
,
marke
this
merry
tale
.
The
tale
of
Pope
Boniface
,
and
why
he
wore
a
Millers
cap
,
and
a
malkin
in
purgatorie
.
THere
dwelled
somtime
in
the
citie
of
Rome
a
Baker
,
named
Astasio
,
who
for
his
honest
behauiour
was
well
accounted
of
amongst
his
neighbours
,
insomuch
,
that
what
●se
soeuer
his
bread
was
baked
after
,
his
loaues
neuer
past
the
ballance
.
This
Astasio
had
sundry
prentises
and
iourneymen
to
do
his
businesse
,
for
he
was
chéefe
Baker
to
the
popes
holinesse
:
amongst
whome
there
was
one
called
Miles
,
who
was
a
strong
lusty
lubber
,
and
one
that
was
as
ripe
conceipted
for
knauerie
,
as
the
Miller
that
ground
their
meale
for
théeuery
,
&
had
as
many
good
conditions
,
as
his
mistresse
had
points
of
chastitie
,
and
she
was
thought
a
vertuous
matron
:
for
a
Cardinall
lay
in
her
house
,
to
instruct
her
with
holy
sentences
,
and
where
such
blessed
men
lie
,
there
can
be
no
lecherie
.
Well
Miles
was
a
mad
wagge
,
and
when
he
had
doone
his
businesse
,
to
exercise
his
wits
would
diuerse
times
resort
to
some
one
or
other
of
the
cloister
of
Nuns
,
amongst
these
merry
wenches
,
to
put
in
practise
the
excellencie
of
his
prattle
,
he
so
behaued
himselfe
,
that
if
higher
fortune
had
not
fallen
him
,
the
Nuns
of
Santa
Maria
had
intreated
their
abbesse
to
haue
made
him
their
fac
totum
:
but
to
his
greater
dignitie
,
thus
it
fell
out
.
It
chaunced
that
Pope
Pius
fell
sicke
,
and
for
that
he
knew
Cardinals
were
ambitious
,
and
would
flie
with
Icarus
whatsoeuer
befall
,
to
auoide
all
mutinies
that
might
insue
after
his
death
about
the
succession
,
of
the
Papacie
:
he
called
his
Cardinals
together
,
and
charged
them
to
elect
none
Pope
,
but
he
that
could
absolue
these
thrée
questions
.
-
1
What
kinde
of
men
those
bee
,
that
GOD
neuer
made
.
-
2
What
creatures
those
be
,
that
in
sight
are
Carnations
,
in
smell
Roses
,
in
hearing
Syrens
,
in
touch
Nettles
,
and
in
taste
Wormewood
.
-
3
And
what
occupations
take
more
paines
about
God
then
the
Pope
.
Upon
these
the
Cardinalls
were
agréed
and
went
home
to
their
seueral
lodging
,
leauing
Pius
wel
contented
with
their
mutuall
consent
,
&
resolued
to
die
,
sith
he
had
so
well
determined
of
the
succession
of
the
papacye
to
bee
briefe
,
as
euery
dogge
hath
his
day
,
so
the
Pope
had
his
date
,
for
the
next
morning
hee
died
.
And
vpon
this
there
was
a
generall
mourning
through
all
Roome
,
the
Cardinalls
wept
,
the
Abbots
howled
,
the
Monks
rored
,
the
fryers
cryed
,
the
Nuns
puled
,
the
Curtizans
lamented
,
the
bels
rang
,
and
the
tapers
were
lighted
,
that
such
a
blacke
Sanctus
was
not
seene
along
time
afore
in
Rome
:
wel
to
be
short
,
his
●unerals
were
solemnly
kept
,
and
his
body
caried
from
Castle
Angelo
to
Saint
Peters
Church
and
there
intombed
.
After
his
death
euery
one
of
the
Cardinals
aspiring
to
the
papacie
,
pondred
in
his
braine
the
meaning
of
these
questions
but
they
were
not
so
good
schollers
that
they
could
eyther
deuide
,
define
,
or
distinguish
vpon
them
,
especially
Cardinall
Montecelso
that
lay
at
the
Bakers
house
,
who
along
while
had
these
questions
hammering
in
his
head
,
but
to
smal
purpose
,
for
the
more
he
sought
the
farther
off
he
was
,
which
gréeued
him
full
sore
:
for
the
day
was
come
wherein
they
must
giue
vp
their
verdict
,
and
the
synod
of
the
Cardinals
appointed
to
méet
Cardinal
Montecelso
ashamd
to
go
,
because
he
was
so
monstrous
a
dunce
,
knowing
that
Myles
the
bakers
man
was
a
fellow
of
a
prompt
wit
,
and
withal
so
like
the
Cardinall
,
as
no
man
possible
could
discerne
the
one
from
the
other
,
brought
it
so
to
passe
,
that
he
perswaded
Miles
to
g●
and
heare
the
questions
,
and
to
sit
in
his
roabes
amongst
the
rest
of
the
Cardinals
:
promising
,
if
he
woon
the
victory
by
his
witte
he
would
when
he
were
Pope
so
labour
,
that
he
would
make
him
a
Cardinal
.
Miles
that
was
eu●r
malepert
,
and
more
saucy
then
honest
,
vndertook
the
matter
and
bluntly
ouer
his
bakers
mealye
Cassock
for
hast
put
on
the
Cardinals
habit
,
and
went
very
solemnly
to
saint
Peters
church
:
where
the
rest
of
the
holy
brotherhood
sate
,
taking
his
place
amongest
them
as
Montecelso
had
directed
him
.
When
thus
they
were
all
gathered
together
,
the
eldest
of
the
fraternity
laide
open
vnto
them
that
now
by
the
death
of
Pius
the
papacy
stood
sede
vacante
:
yet
by
the
good
direction
of
his
holines
in
his
life
time
to
anoide
further
controuersie
in
the
Church
,
he
had
left
a
meane
to
know
who
should
be
next
successor
in
the
sea
,
and
thereupon
he
propounded
thrée
questions
,
which
began
at
the
eldest
,
&
so
gradatim
went
downeward
:
sundry
men
gaue
sundry
verdictes
,
at
last
it
came
to
Cardinall
Montecelso
,
wh●
was
yongest
,
to
yéeld
his
reason
,
which
if
it
were
not
probable
and
plausible
,
the
Synode
must
deuise
some
other
meanes
to
knowe
the
successor
:
for
the
questions
were
so
darke
that
amongst
the
rest
they
were
as
inscrutable
Aenigmaes
.
Well
to
Miles
at
last
came
the
matter
to
bee
made
manifest
,
who
very
demurely
in
his
scarlet
roabes
and
his
graue
bennet
,
began
thus
:
My
Lords
and
fellow
brethren
in
this
dignitie
,
nowe
is
the
text
fulfilled
:
The
last
shall
be
first
and
the
first
shall
be
last
:
For
I
that
am
youngest
in
yeres
,
am
like
to
be
eldest
in
iudgement
,
and
being
last
in
degrée
,
am
like
to
be
first
in
dignity
.
Therefor●
you
foolish
dunces
thus
to
absolue
these
thrée
questions
.
What
kinde
of
men
be
those
that
God
neuer
made
.
I
tell
you
they
be
Popes
,
Cardinals
,
Abbots
,
Monks
,
and
Priests
:
for
n●ne
of
all
these
did
God
euer
make
:
and
thus
I
proue
it
.
The
Creator
,
both
according
to
the
principles
of
Philosophie
and
Theology
,
is
greater
th●n
the
Creature
,
and
it
is
impossible
that
the
maker
should
bec
formed
or
fashioned
by
the
thing
made
;
as
a
pot
to
make
a
Potter
:
is
it
not
then
as
repugnant
to
reason
that
God
should
make
a
Priest
,
when
the
Priest
euery
day
in
his
masse
maketh
God
?
and
so
is
he
the
creator
and
God
the
creature
:
therefore
brethren
the
Priest
is
the
man
that
God
neuer
made
,
because
wee
our selues
knowe
that
the
Priest
i●
Gods
maker
.
To
this
they
all
applauded
and
said
:
he
had
spoken
as
much
as
Pius
meaut
.
Now
quoth
hee
to
the
second
question
.
What
creatures
those
be
,
that
in
sight
are
Carnations
,
in
smell
Roses
,
in
hearing
Syrens
,
in
touching
nettles
,
and
in
tast
wormewood
.
Thus
I
answere
:
they
be
(
my
masters
quoth
he
)
these
kinde
of
cattle
that
we
couet
so
much
to
keepe
,
and
these
be
women
:
for
he
that
sees
a
gallant
wench
,
which
wee
Italians
terme
Bona
Roba
,
with
a
fa●e
face
flourisht
ouer
with
a
vermilion
blush
,
shée
seemes
to
his
eie
as
beautifull
as
a
Caruation
:
and
hir
breath
that
is
as
swéete
and
odoriferous
as
a
Rose
:
he
that
listens
to
hir
words
,
shall
finde
them
as
pleasant
and
melodious
as
the
Syren
,
and
as
full
of
flattery
as
Cyrces
:
so
that
hee
that
will
auoide
thrée
wiles
,
must
with
Vlisses
tie
himselfe
to
the
mast
,
or
els
venture
on
thrée
dangerous
shelues
:
in
touching
they
be
nettles
,
for
they
sti●g
to
the
quicke
:
and
in
tast
whosoeuer
tries
them
,
sh●l
finde
them
as
bitter
in
the
ende
as
wormewood
.
When
Miles
had
discourst
this
,
they
thought
Sphnix
himselfe
could
not
haue
yeelded
a
better
reason
,
and
therefore
our
gentle
man
Baker
went
on
to
the
third
thus
boldly
:
and
nowe
masters
,
quoth
hee
,
to
the
last
.
What
occupations
take
more
paines
about
God
then
the
pope
.
Marry
quoth
Myles
,
there
be
thrée
,
the
ploughman
,
the
Miller
and
the
baker
:
&
thus
I
proue
it
:
The
ploughman
he
takes
paines
to
●…sse
his
field
,
to
sow
his
corne
,
and
in
haruest
with
toile
to
reape
,
in
winter
to
threshe
it
out
with
the
sweate
of
his
brows
.
Then
it
is
conueyed
from
him
to
the
Miller
and
he
bestiers
him self
to
set
his
stones
in
frame
to
grind
it
:
next
it
is
transported
to
the
Baker
,
&
he
boults
it
and
sifts
the
bran
from
the
flower
,
and
with
great
paines
makes
it
into
afine
Cake
&
bakes
it
,
last
it
is
brought
to
the
Pope
,
and
he
when
he
is
at
masse
saies
but
hoc
est
corpus
meum
,
and
it
is
God
:
he
spends
but
alitle
fewe
wast
words
about
it
,
whereas
the
other
thrée
labor
long
ere
they
bring
it
to
perfection
:
therefore
these
three
take
more
paines
about
God
then
the
pope
.
One
of
the
old
Cardinals
hearing
this
,
wondring
at
his
wit
began
to
repeate
ouer
the
names
of
the
plouhgswaine
the
Miller
and
the
baker
:
Myles
hearing
him
name
the
Baker
,
tooke
straight
Pepper
in
the
nose
and
starting
vpp
threw
of
his
Cardinals
roabes
,
standing
inhis
dustie
Cassocke
,
swore
I
by
cockesbread
the
Baker
,
and
he
that
sayes
to
the
contrary
,
here
stand
I
Myles
the
Bakers
man
to
haue
the
prowdest
Cardinall
of
you
al
by
the
ears
.
The
Cardinals
all
this
while
thinking
it
had
ben
Monterelso
and
no●
séeing
it
was
Myles
the
Bakers
man
,
to
sooth
vp
the
matter
and
cl●ake
their
owne
ignorances
made
him
Pope
&
called
him
in
steade
of
Myles
,
Boniface
:
where
he
soone
forgat
being
a
Priest
that
euer
he
was
a
Clarke
:
in
so
much
that
on
a
day
passing
to
Saint
peters
Church
,
his
maiste
.
Astasio
met
him
,
and
amongst
the
rest
did
his
holynesse
great
reuerence
,
but
Myles
now
that
was
Pope
,
coulde
not
loke
so
low
as
a
poore
baker
,
which
his
maister
espying
,
as
he
came
by
said
that
the
Pope
might
heare
.
Non
fuit
sic
à
principio
:
No
Knaue
quoth
he
,
but
the
shalt
heare
sang
anon
;
Sic
erit
in
secula
seculorum
Amen
.
Thus
went
the
Bakers
man
in
solempe
porcession
to
Saint
Peters
church
,
and
there
after
his
instalment
hard
masse
,
&
so
departed
home
to
Castle
Angelo
.
And
for
that
he
was
aduan●st
from
from
a
Bakers
trough
to
the
papacie
,
and
after
grewe
so
proud
and
insolent
,
that
he
would
not
know
his
old
master
:
he
sits
in
a
Millers
dustie
Cappe
and
a
Bakers
malking
:
to
signifie
,
the
former
pride
of
his
life
.
Next
him
sat
Hildebrand
,
&
he
held
a
red
Hering
in
his
hand
,
because
he
made
lent
:
and
one
Pope
sat
with
a
smock
sleeue
about
his
necke
,
and
that
was
he
that
made
the
imbering
weekes
;
in
honore
of
his
faire
and
beatifull
curtizan
Imbra
.
A
litle
beyond
sat
Alexander
,
who
was
forest
to
make
cleane
rustie
Armor
,
that
like
Sisiphus
stone
had
no
end
:
for
as
fast
as
he
scowred
,
the
cancker
stil
fretted
that
he
did
:
In
caucasum
saxum
volucre
:
&
this
was
because
he
was
a
better
soldier
then
a
Scholler
.
Hard
by
him
was
Iulius
,
that
vpon
the
bridge
threw
S.
Peters
keyes
into
Tiber
,
&
toke
him
to
the
sword
of
Paul
:
infinit
other
sundry
offences
:
but
such
a
multitude
were
plangd
for
wenching
,
that
of
them
al
there
was
not
one
scapt
frée
for
the
fault
.
But
Vrbane
the
second
,
that
was
in
stalde
Pope
in
the
morning
and
was
poysoned
before
dinner
,
and
yet
the
question
,
whether
,
if
hee
had
lyued
that
night
,
his
lemon
and
he
had
not
bidden
penaunce
in
purgatorie
for
their
sinnes
.
Thus
when
I
saw
all
these
statelye
fellowes
,
as
I
was
redy
to
go
out
of
the
hall
,
I
spied
sitting
in
a
corner
a
bare
faced
youth
,
wel
featured
,
of
a
liuely
countenaunce
,
and
a
swéete
looke
,
in
Poopes
attire
:
but
on
hir
head
in
stead
of
a
myter
shée
had
a
kercher
,
and
in
hir
hand
a
distaffe
:
I
thought
it
had
béene
Hercules
that
was
found
playing
the
wanton
so
with
Ompha●e
,
or
Sardanapalus
amongst
his
Curtisans
.
But
at
last
I
spied
it
was
a
Pope
,
or
had
been
a
Pope
:
But
whether
man
or
woman
,
or
what
it
was
I
sould
not
tell
,
till
I
spied
written
ouer
his
head
in
great
Caracters
this
stile
:
Papa
,
Pater
,
Parens
Patriae
,
Prope
Portas
Petri
,
Pauli
,
Paruum
Peperit
Puerum
.
Then
I
perceiued
it
was
Pope
Ioane
that
honest
woman
,
that
as
shée
went
a
procession
through
the
Lateran
was
brought
to
bed
in
the
stréetes
.
I
smilde
at
hir
attire
,
and
left
hir
to
hir
punishment
.
Passing
from
thence
I
went
into
a
lower
Roome
,
and
there
were
all
kings
and
princes
,
and
men
of
name
,
which
for
that
I
might
slander
their
royall
titles
,
I
omitte
with
silence
.
But
thus
they
were
all
punished
according
to
their
offences
,
no
more
spared
for
their
wealth
then
the
poore
for
their
pouerty
;
vnlesse
they
died
highly
in
the
popes
fauour
;
and
perhaps
there
was
some
indulgence
to
mittigate
their
punishment
.
I
left
them
,
and
anon
I
came
into
a
baser
roome
all
full
of
Monkes
and
Friars
,
what
sinnes
I
saw
there
figured
fo●th
I
am
ashamed
to
rehearse
,
onely
Fri●r
Onyon
the
holy
Confessour
of
Florence
,
hee
sate
there
naked
,
all
annointed
with
h●ny
and
miserably
tormented
with
waspes
.
The
cause
of
his
punishment
I
learned
to
be
this
.
The
tale
of
Friar
Onyon
,
why
in
purgatorie
he
was
tormented
with
waspes
.
THere
dwelled
a
widow
in
Florence
of
good
parentage
,
&
large
possessions
,
more
beautifull
then
she
was
wealthie
,
and
yet
she
was
the
richest
widow
in
al
Florence
,
hir
name
was
Lisetta
,
the
onely
faulte
that
was
found
in
hir
was
,
that
hir
beautie
was
more
then
hir
wit
,
and
that
such
a
selfeloue
of
hir
excellencie
had
made
hir
ouerweene
hir selfe
,
that
she
thought
none
fit
to
bee
her
husband
in
all
Forence
.
Thus
though
she
were
lookde
at
for
hir
outward
perfection
,
yet
was
she
laughde
at
for
hir
inward
follies
.
Well
howsoeuer
others
censured
of
her
,
she
thought
her
peny
better
siluer
then
the
rest
,
and
would
so
striue
to
excell
other
Gentlewomen
in
the
nicenesse
of
gesture
,
that
●ft-times
she
marde
all
:
in
so
much
that
hir
coy
quaintnesse
was
a
byword
in
the
citie
.
Euery
wéeke
forsooth
,
because
she
would
seeme
as
vertuous
as
she
was
faire
,
she
deuoutly
went
to
Friar
Onion
,
to
be
confessed
of
hir
sins
:
the
Priest
,
who
was
a
lustie
lubber
,
and
a
tall
swaine
,
and
nurst
vp
lust
with
idlenesse
;
began
to
looke
vpon
hir
more
narrowlie
,
and
to
take
a
particular
view
of
hir
perfections
;
with
that
entring
with
a
piercing
insight
into
hir
selfeloue
;
thought
,
that
she
might
quickly
be
ouer-reacht
in
hir
owne
conceipts
:
for
he
thought
,
that
if
the
wisest
women
were
wonne
with
faire
praises
,
and
large
promises
,
it
were
more
eas●e
to
intrap
hir
with
the
discourse
of
her
excellencie
.
Therefore
he
laid
his
plot
thus
:
the
next
time
Lis●tta
came
to
shrift
,
after
she
had
made
her
confession
,
and
had
receiued
absolution
for
hir
sinnes
,
Friar
Onyon
looking
earnestlie
vpon
hir
,
fetcht
a
far
sigh
and
said
:
ah
Madam
!
if
you
knew
as
much
as
I
know
;
as
you
are
the
fairest
,
so
you
would
thinke
your selfe
the
happiest
of
all
weomen
that
are
aliue
.
And
why
syr
I
pray
you
,
quoth
Lisetta
?
ah
said
friar
Onyon
:
it
is
such
a
secret
as
may
not
be
reuealed
:
for
if
I
should
disclose
it
to
you
,
and
you
by
any
meanes
make
it
manifest
,
there
were
no
way
with
me
but
a
most
miserable
death
.
Lisetta
,
as
all
women
be
desirous
of
noueltie
,
was
so
gréedie
to
heare
what
good
was
toward
hir
,
that
she
made
a
thousand
protestations
,
and
vttered
a
thousand
oathes
,
neuer
to
bewray
what
her
ghostly
father
should
tell
her
in
secret
.
Then
Madam
,
quoth
Friar
Onyon
,
with
a
graue
and
a
demure
countenance
,
know
your
beautie
is
so
excellent
,
and
your
perfection
so
farre
beyond
the
common
course
of
all
other
women
,
that
not
onely
all
men
that
sée
you
,
admire
you
as
a
miracle
:
but
the
very
Angels
in
heauen
are
enamored
of
your
proportion
.
The
Angels
,
quoth
she
,
is
that
possible
?
The
angels
,
madam
,
and
not
the
meanest
,
but
the
most
beautifull
of
all
the
rest
:
for
the
Angell
Gabriel
is
so
far
in
loue
with
you
,
that
the
other
night
he
appeared
vnto
me
,
and
charged
me
to
do
his
earnest
commendations
vnto
you
,
with
promise
,
that
if
hee
might
be
assured
of
your
secrecie
,
he
would
at
conuenient
times
visit
you
,
and
interteine
you
with
such
loue
as
befitteth
such
holy
spirits
.
This
tale
so
set
a
fire
Lisetta
,
that
she
not
onely
thanked
Friar
Onyon
for
his
commendations
;
but
counted
her selfe
the
most
fortunate
of
all
women
,
that
she
was
beloued
of
so
blessed
a
Saint
:
&
therfore
when
and
where
it
pleased
him
,
he
should
be
intertained
with
as
honourable
secrecie
,
as
a
poore
dame
of
her
calling
might
afford
.
Friar
Onyon
séeing
this
géere
would
worke
,
prosecuted
his
purpose
then
subtilly
:
he
presently
fell
downe
on
his
knées
before
hir
,
and
desired
,
that
for
such
happie
newes
as
he
had
brought
,
she
would
graunt
him
a
boone
.
Lisetta
liberall
now
to
performe
any
demaund
,
bad
him
aske
.
Then
he
began
thus
:
Madam
,
quoth
he
,
for
that
the
Angell
Gabriell
is
a
spirit
,
and
his
brightnesse
such
,
as
no
mortall
eye
can
suffer
,
and
therefore
must
come
vnto
you
in
some
humane
shape
,
I
pray
you
vouchsafe
,
that
my
bodie
may
be
the
receptacle
for
him
,
that
while
he
putteth
on
my
carcasse
,
my
soule
may
enioy
the
sight
and
pleasures
of
paradise
:
so
shall
you
not
hinder
your selfe
,
and
do
me
an
vnspeakeable
benefit
.
Lisetta
seeing
Friar
Onyon
was
a
lusty
tall
fellow
,
willing
in
what
she
might
,
to
pleasure
him
,
graunted
his
request
verie
willinglie
:
wherevpon
it
was
concluded
,
that
she
should
leaue
the
doore
open
,
and
about
midnight
the
Angel
Gabriell
should
come
to
visit
hir
.
Upon
this
resolution
home
went
Lisetta
,
as
merry
as
a
pie
,
tricking
vp
hir
bedchamber
with
all
brauerie
,
and
rich
perfumes
for
the
interteinment
of
hir
paramour
.
And
,
Friar
Onyon
,
as
busie
as
a
bée
,
was
making
his
winges
and
his
trinckets
ready
to
play
the
Angell
:
well
,
he
delt
so
,
that
he
agréed
with
an
old
pandor
that
dwelt
opposite
to
the
house
,
and
there
made
himselfe
ready
,
and
at
the
houre
appointed
went
to
Lisetta
:
where
he
found
the
doore
open
,
and
so
entred
vp
till
hee
came
to
her
bedchamber
;
where
she
sat
expecting
his
comming
:
assoone
as
she
sawe
him
with
his
glorious
wings
and
his
white
roabes
,
she
rose
,
and
fell
at
his
féet
:
but
he
louingly
tooke
her
vp
,
imbracst
hir
,
kist
her
,
and
pointed
to
the
bed
,
whether
the
Angell
went
after
he
had
laid
apart
his
abiliments
,
and
Lisetta
followed
with
as
much
spéed
as
might
be
:
Caetera
quis
nescit
.
Early
before
breake
of
the
day
,
Gabriell
tooke
his
leaue
of
his
Lisetta
,
and
went
to
his
lodging
,
leauing
hir
the
proudest
woman
in
the
world
,
that
shee
was
beloued
of
an
Angell
.
Friar
Onyon
hee
got
him
to
his
cell
,
and
there
tooke
vppe
his
broaken
sléepe
hee
had
lost
till
nine
of
the
clocke
,
that
hee
went
into
his
Oratorie
:
where
hee
had
not
sytten
long
,
but
Lisetta
in
as
great
brauerie
as
might
,
came
to
the
church
,
and
then
offerd
vp
in
greater
deuotion
a
burning
taper
to
the
Angell
Gabriell
;
afterwards
hir
orisons
done
she
came
to
fryar
Onyon
,
who
after
some
conference
demaunded
hir
of
hir
new
louer
,
whom
shee
highly
commended
,
and
he
againe
gaue
hir
great
thanks
,
that
shee
vouchsaft
him
to
be
the
re●eptacle
of
so
holy
a
Saint
:
for
all
the
while
his
bodie
was
with
hir
,
his
soule
did
tast
the
Ioyes
of
paradice
.
These
two
thus
agreed
,
it
so
fell
out
that
sundry
times
as
occasion
&
oportunity
would
giue
leaue
,
the
Angell
Gabriel
visited
Lisetta
:
The
Fryar
thus
frolicke
in
this
conceited
content
was
thwarted
by
fortune
on
this
manner
:
Lisetta
waxing
very
proud
with
the
remembrance
of
hir
new
louer
,
was
so
coy
and
disdainefull
,
as
she
thought
neuer
a
dame
in
Florence
fit
for
hir
company
:
insomuch
that
many
wondred
why
shee
grewe
so
insolent
.
●ut
the
more
they
maruailed
,
the
more
shee
was
malapert
,
conceiuing
such
abundance
of
selfeloue
within
hir
stomacke
,
that
shee
was
with
childe
till
shee
had
vttered
hir
minde
to
some
of
hir
gossips
:
on
a
day
sitting
with
one
in
whom
shee
had
most
affiance
,
shee
beganne
to
require
secrecy
,
and
shee
would
vnfold
vnto
hir
a
thing
not
onely
strange
but
of
great
import
.
Hir
gossip
as
the
custome
is
,
began
to
blame
those
wiues
whose
secrets
lay
at
their
tongues
end
,
and
saide
,
shée
was
neuer
toucht
with
any
staine
of
hir
tongue
:
and
therefore
what
soeuer
shée
told
hir
,
should
bee
buried
vnder
foote
and
goe
no
further
.
Upon
this
Lysetta
began
to
rehearse
vnto
hir
from
point
to
point
,
the
whole
discourse
of
the
Angell
Gabriell
,
howe
hee
was
in
loue
with
hir
,
and
how
sundry
nights
he
lay
with
hir
,
and
many
more
matters
which
he
told
hir
of
the
ioyes
of
Paradise
.
Hir
gossip
being
a
wily
wench
kept
hir
counter
.
āc●
very
demurely
,
commending
the
excellencie
of
hir
beauty
,
that
did
not
onely
amaze
men
,
but
drew
euen
Angels
to
be
●amoured
of
hir
:
promising
to
be
as
secrete
in
this
matter
as
hir selfe
.
Shee
thought
the
time
long
till
they
might
breake
off
talke
,
and
therefore
assoone
as
shée
could
finde
opportunity
,
shée
tooke
hir
leaue
,
and
●ted
hir
homeward
:
but
to
hir
house
shée
coulde
not
goe
,
till
thée
had
met
with
two
or
three
of
hir
gossips
;
to
whom
in
a
great
laughter
shée
vnfolded
what
madam
Lysetta
had
told
hir
,
how
shee
was
beloued
of
the
Angell
Gabriell
,
and
how
sundry
nights
he
lay
with
hir
,
and
tould
her
of
the
ioyes
of
Paradice
.
This
was
worke
enough
for
nine
daies
,
for
the
woonder
of
Madame
Lisettas
barne
went
through
all
Florence
:
so
that
at
last
it
came
to
the
eares
of
Lisettas
friends
,
who
gréeued
that
such
a
clamor
should
be
raised
of
their
kinswoman
:
knowing
hir
follie
,
thought
to
watch
néere
,
but
they
would
take
the
Angell
Gabriell
and
clip
his
winges
from
flying
.
Well
secret
they
kept
it
,
and
made
as
though
they
had
not
hard
of
it
,
yet
kept
they
such
diligent
watch
,
that
they
knew
the
night
when
the
Angell
would
descend
to
visit
Lisetta
:
wherevpon
they
beset
the
house
round
,
and
assoone
as
Friar
Onyon
was
in
,
&
had
put
off
his
wings
,
&
was
gone
to
bed
,
the
rushing
in
of
the
watch
wakened
him
from
his
rest
,
&
that
with
such
a
vengeance
,
that
trusting
more
to
his
feete
then
to
his
fethers
,
hee
left
madam
Lisetta
amazed
at
the
noise
:
and
he
himselfe
was
so
sharpely
beset
and
so
néere
taken
,
that
he
was
faine
to
leape
out
of
a
hie
garret
windowe
,
and
so
almost
breake
his
neck
,
into
a
little
narrow
lane
.
Well
his
best
ioint
scapte
,
but
he
was
sore
brused
:
yet
feare
made
him
forget
his
fall
,
that
a
way
hee
ran
to
a
poore
mans
house
where
he
saw
light
,
and
t●ere
go●
in
,
making
an
excuse
how
he
had
fallen
among
theeues
;
and
so
desired
lodging
.
The
man
hauing
heard
talke
of
the
Angell
Grabriell
,
knowing
verie
well
Friar
Onyon
that
knew
not
him
,
let
him
haue
lodging
verie
willinglie
,
but
all
this
while
that
he
escapt
,
were
Lisettas
friends
seeking
for
the
saint
,
that
so
tenderlie
loued
their
ki●swoman
:
but
they
could
nor
finde
him
,
and
to
heauen
he
was
not
flowne
,
for
they
ha●
found
his
wings
:
sorry
they
were
that
Gabriell
had
mist
them
.
But
they
chid
harde
,
and
rebuked
the
follie
of
Lisettas
selfeloue
,
that
was
not
onely
so
credulous
,
but
such
a
blab
as
to
reueale
hir
owne
secrets
:
it
was
late
,
and
because
they
had
mist
of
their
purpose
they
departed
,
leauing
Lisetta
a
sorrowfull
woman
,
that
she
was
so
deceiued
by
the
Angell
Gabriell
.
Well
night
passed
,
and
the
morning
came
,
&
this
poore
man
friar
Onyons
hoast
tould
him
,
that
he
knew
not
●ow
to
shift
him
:
for
there
was
that
day
a
great
search
for
one
Friar
Onyon
that
had
escapde
naked
from
Lisettas
house
,
and
who
so
kept
him
in
secret
should
haue
his
eares
naild
on
the
pillorie
:
at
this
the
Friar
started
and
said
:
alas
friend
I
am
the
man
:
and
if
by
any
meanes
thou
caust
conuay
me
to
the
Dortor
of
our
Friory
,
I
will
giue
thee
fortie
Duc●ats
:
if
you
will
,
quoth
his
hoast
follow
my
counsatle
,
fear●
not
,
I
will
conuey
you
thither
safe
and
vnknowne
,
and
thus
.
This
day
there
is
great
she
w●s
made
before
the
Duke
of
Florence
,
and
strange
sights
to
be
seene
,
and
diuerse
wilde
men
disguised
in
strange
attire
are
brought
into
the
market
place
:
now
I
will
dresse
you
in
some
strange
order
,
and
with
a
maske
ouer
your
face
,
lead
you
amongst
the
rest
,
and
when
the
shew
is
doone
,
carrying
you
as
though
.
I
should
carrie
you
home
,
I
will
●nueigh
you
into
the
Dortor
backside
secret
and
vnknowne
.
Although
this
seemed
hard
to
the
friar
,
yet
of
two
euils
the
least
was
to
be
chosen
,
and
he
consented
to
suffer
what
the
hoast
would
deuise
.
Wherevpon
he
that
was
of
a
pleasant
conceipt
vsed
him
thus
:
he
annointed
him
ouer
with
barme
mixed
with
hony
,
and
stuck
him
full
of
feathers
,
and
tying
him
by
the
neck
with
a
chaine
,
put
a
visor
on
his
face
,
and
on
either
side
tide
a
great
ban
Dogge
,
in
this
come
equipage
marched
this
poore
man
with
the
Friar
.
He
was
no
sooner
come
into
the
open
streete
,
but
the
people
hauing
neuer
seene
such
a
sight
before
in
Florence
,
did
not
onely
wonder
at
the
strangenesse
of
his
dressing
;
but
maruailed
what
this
nouelty
should
meane
:
wherevpon
an
infinit
number
not
onely
of
the
common
sort
,
but
of
the
grauest
citizens
followed
,
to
see
what
should
be
the
end
of
this
woonder
.
With
a
solemne
pace
marched
his
kéeper
,
till
he
came
to
the
market
place
,
where
tying
him
to
a
great
piller
that
stoode
there
,
he
then
let
make
in
all
places
of
the
citie
solemne
proclamation
,
that
who
so
would
sée
the
Angell
Gabriell
,
should
presently
come
to
the
market
place
,
and
behould
him
there
in
that
amorous
dignitie
that
he
did
vsually
visit
the
Dames
of
Florence
:
at
this
proclamation
there
was
a
generall
concourse
of
people
,
especially
of
the
better
sort
that
had
hard
of
Lisettas
loues
:
so
that
the
duke
himselfe
came
thither
,
and
amongst
the
rest
Lisettas
kinsmen
.
When
all
the
market
place
was
full
of
people
,
the
hoast
pulled
the
visor
from
the
Friars
face
:
at
which
the
people
gaue
a
great
shoute
,
clapping
their
hands
,
and
crying
,
the
Angell
Gabriell
,
the
Angell
Gabriell
,
he
that
comes
from
heauen
,
to
make
vs
wear●
hornes
.
I
néed
not
I
hope
,
intreate
you
to
beléeue
,
that
poore
Friar
Onyon
was
heauily
perplered
,
especially
when
the
day
grew
hot
,
he
naked
and
anointed
with
hony
,
so
that
all
the
waspes
in
the
citie
,
as
it
were
by
a
miracle
,
left
the
Grocers
shops
,
and
came
to
visit
the
Friar
,
because
his
skin
was
so
swéete
:
but
alas
to
the
poore
mans
paines
,
that
he
was
almost
st●ng
to
death
.
Diuers
of
his
●ouent
came
thither
to
see
the
strange
apparition
of
the
Angell
,
who
when
they
saw
he
was
Friar
Onyon
:
then
they
couered
their
shauen
crownes
with
their
cooles
,
and
went
home
with
a
flea
in
their
eares
.
Thus
all
day
stood
the
poore
Friar
woondered
at
of
all
the
people
of
Florence
,
and
tor●ented
with
waspes
,
and
at
night
fetcht
home
to
the
Dortor
by
some
of
his
brothers
:
he
was
clapt
in
prison
,
where
for
sorrow
poore
Gabriell
died
:
and
because
he
did
so
dishonor
the
other
Friars
,
he
bydes
this
torment
in
purgatorie
.
The
discourse
of
the
Fryar
thus
past
,
I
viewed
them
all
that
were
Churchmen
:
and
after
went
into
a
lower
roome
,
where
there
was
a
medley
of
all
manner
〈◊〉
people
of
all
trades
,
sciences
,
and
occupations
,
assigned
to
such
sundry
torments
,
as
mans
eye
would
almost
surfet
with
the
varietie
of
obiects
,
euen
the
very
broome
men
were
there
for
robbing
of
the
broome
closes
betwéene
Barking
and
London
.
And
hard
by
them
was
there
a
place
empty
formed
thus
:
It
was
made
like
the
shape
of
Tiborne
threesquare
,
and
all
painted
about
with
halters
,
and
hard
by
stood
two
tall
fellowes
with
carters
whips
so
stearnely
looking
,
as
if
with
euery
lashe
they
would
cut
a
man
to
the
bones
:
there
was
written
ouer
the
place
a
great
romaine
B.
I
could
not
learne
for
whom
this
torment
was
prouided
,
for
the
so
many
men
,
so
many
censures
:
some
said
it
was
for
one
Boniface
which
should
be
Pope
,
and
should
proue
a
great
persecutor
:
others
,
that
Bonner
should
be
brought
from
his
place
among
the
prelates
,
and
be
whipt
there
for
bréeching
of
Bartlet
Greene
naked
in
his
garden
:
but
the
most
voyces
went
,
that
it
was
for
Bul
the
hangman
,
because
at
his
whipping
in
london
the
carters
shewed
him
too
much
fauour
.
Well
for
whomsoeuer
it
is
,
God
blesse
me
from
it
,
for
he
is
like
to
be
well
belaboured
with
two
lustie
knaues
.
Looking
still
about
,
I
saw
thrée
men
seated
as
it
were
in
thrones
higher
then
the
rest
,
with
three
shields
hanging
by
them
,
hauing
impreses
and
mottoes
,
I
stayed
and
gazed
my
fill
vpon
them
:
for
they
had
no
punishment
,
but
were
as
prisoners
detayned
in
purgatorie
,
but
with
a
preheminence
;
for
which
soeuer
of
the
Ghosts
passed
by
gaue
them
a
knée
with
a
reuerence
.
I
maruailed
what
they
should
be
,
and
one
tould
me
it
was
the
thrée
degrées
of
Cuckholds
;
with
that
I
smilde
,
and
lookde
more
narrowly
vpon
them
,
I
spide
written
ouer
the
firsts
head
this
short
sentence
,
One
and
One.
Ouer
the
second
,
None
and
one
:
ouer
the
third
One
and
none
.
This
was
to
me
a
darke
Aenigma
,
that
I
wished
some
Sphinx
to
vnfoulde
the
secret
,
at
last
on●
stept
to
me
and
told
me
the
whole
matter
thus
.
The
tale
of
the
three
Cuckolds
,
of
their
impreses
and
mottoes
.
THese
thrée
men
,
my
friend
quoth
the
ghost
,
when
they
liued
were
thrée
famous
men
,
and
yet
Cuckoldes
,
as
by
their
attier
thou
maiest
perceiue
:
but
different
in
degrée
,
nature
and
condition
.
Hee
which
sits
highest
,
ouer
whose
head
thou
séest
is
written
,
One
and
One
,
had
a
beautifull
dame
to
his
wife
,
faire
and
well
featured
;
yet
a
great
deale
more
full
of
beauty
then
of
honesty
:
but
howsoeuer
qualified
,
a
good
wench
shée
was
,
and
one
that
was
not
such
a
niggard
but
shée
could
kéepe
a
corner
for
a
friend
:
to
be
brief
,
shée
would
beare
a
man
false
at
tables
,
and
hir
husband
that
loued
Irish
well
,
thought
it
no
ill
tricke
at
tables
to
beare
a
man
too
many
:
he
saw
it
and
knew
very
well
,
that
his
wife
loued
another
as
well
as
himselfe
:
yet
hee
loued
hir
so
,
that
he
woulde
not
discontent
hir
,
but
suffered
hir
to
haue
hir
longing
and
to
féede
hir
owne
fancie
,
and
like
a
wittold
winkt
at
it
,
and
therefore
worthy
to
weare
the
horne
.
Thus
while
he
liued
the
dishonour
of
his
life
was
shame
enough
for
his
leudnes
,
&
nowe
after
his
death
because
he
was
so
kind
a
man
,
they
haue
plast
him
there
without
any
punishment
,
because
it
was
penance
enough
to
haue
his
conscience
prickt
with
a
restles
sting
of
baudry
.
And
here
they
haue
made
him
a
gentleman
,
and
in
his
Scutchion
haue
giuen
him
the
Ram
rampant
,
with
a
mighty
paire
of
hornes
hanging
ouer
his
eies
:
to
signifie
,
if
it
be
rightly
emblasde
,
that
he
had
such
a
great
head
,
that
looking
through
his
hornes
he
did
sée
and
not
see
,
shocking
on
with
heauy
palmes
as
belwether
to
the
rest
,
his
Motto
is
stolne
out
of
Tully
:
Non
solum
pro
nobis
.
Meaning
,
that
as
we
are
not
borne
for
our selues
,
but
for
our
Country
,
so
he
did
not
marry
a
wife
for
himselfe
,
but
for
his
neighbours
:
this
was
the
kinde
opinion
of
this
graue
wittold
.
The
second
,
ouer
whose
head
is
written
,
None
&
One
,
was
a
man
of
an
honest
and
vertuous
disposition
,
who
hauing
a
faire
wife
,
that
though
shee
coulde
not
treade
right
,
yet
wrincht
hir
shooe
inward
;
that
was
as
secret
as
shée
was
false
;
and
though
shée
could
not
liue
Caste
yet
shée
liued
Caute
:
he
neuer
suspected
hir
;
but
as
he
was
honestly
minded
towards
hir
,
and
kept
himselfe
to
the
wife
of
his
bosome
,
so
measured
hir
foote
after
his
owne
last
,
and
thought
none
in
the
world
to
haue
a
more
chast
wife
,
although
indéed
none
had
a
more
lasciuious
wanton
.
This
poore
man
was
none
in
his
owne
conceit
,
yet
was
one
indéede
:
and
therefore
is
he
placst
here
without
any
torture
:
for
that
it
is
plague
enough
for
him
that
hee
had
a
whore
to
his
wife
.
Hee
is
likewise
made
a
gentleman
and
giues
Armes
the
Goate
,
which
by
imblasure
signifies
,
that
as
the
Goate
carries
his
hornes
behinde
,
so
hauing
hornes
because
they
were
not
apparant
on
his
forehead
,
thought
hee
had
none
,
and
yet
carried
a
faire
paire
backward
like
the
Gote
,
his
Motto
is
:
Crede
quod
habes
&
Habes
.
Meaning
,
that
a
mans
content
stands
as
his
beléeuing
is
;
so
that
if
a
man
in
his
owne
conscience
thinkes
he
hath
a
faire
wife
,
it
sufficeth
,
what
soeuer
proofe
makes
manifest
to
others
.
The
third
,
ouer
whose
head
is
written
,
One
and
None
,
is
a
man
that
hath
a
woman
of
surpassing
beauty
to
his
wife
,
excellent
and
rare
in
properties
,
and
euery
way
as
vertuous
in
honest
perfection
,
a
woman
as
faire
as
Heelen
and
as
chaste
as
Lucrece
:
yet
forsooth
,
because
his
wife
is
more
faire
then
the
common
sort
,
and
therefore
more
gazde
on
for
that
wheresoeuer
shée
goes
,
many
mens
eies
wait
vpon
hir
and
diuers
lasciuious
youth
attempt
to
frequent
hir
company
;
yet
shée
that
is
wholy
resolued
vpon
vertue
hath
the
tortue
is
vnder
hir
féet
and
gads
not
abroad
;
but
kéeping
home
auoids
all
occasions
of
dishonor
:
yet
for
al
these
manifest
instances
of
hir
honesty
,
the
eie
of
hir
husband
fiered
with
suspition
so
inflames
his
hart
with
iealousie
,
as
there
is
none
looks
on
his
wife
,
but
he
thinks
he
comes
to
court
hir
,
&
shee
glaunces
hir
ei●
on
none
but
straight
shee
loues
him
:
if
shee
smile
,
it
is
to
thinke
how
hir
loue
&
shee
shall
meet
;
if
shee
lower
,
it
is
because
she
hath
not
seen
him
to
day
:
thus
liuing
doth
he
lead
a
hellish
life
in
the
labirinth
of
Iealousie
,
&
therefore
is
he
placst
heere
without
punishment
in
Purgatorie
,
because
there
can
be
no
greater
torment
then
to
bee
plagued
with
the
restlesse
sting
of
Iealousie
.
He
is
as
the
rest
are
,
made
a
gentleman
,
his
arms
the
Asse
,
with
a
maruellous
paire
of
long
&
large
eares
.
The
emblason
this
,
that
as
the
Asse
for
the
length
of
his
eares
thinks
them
to
be
hornes
,
&
yet
indéed
are
but
a
plain
paire
of
eares
:
so
he
like
an
Asse
because
he
hath
a
faire
wife
,
thinks
that
per
Consequens
he
must
be
a
Cuckold
,
when
indeed
he
is
none
,
and
so
supposeth
his
eares
to
be
hornes
:
his
Motto
is
,
Ne
mulieri
credas
,
ne
mortus
quidem
.
Meaning
,
that
what
faire
shewe
soeuer
a
woman
dooth
heare
of
honestie
,
yet
there
is
no
credite
to
be
giuen
vnto
hir
coynesse
:
but
hee
resolues
with
the
crue
of
the
yellow
hosde
companions
,
that
Mulier
,
howsoeuer
it
be
spoken
or
vnderstoode
,
is
a
word
of
vnconstancie
:
therefore
though
he
hath
no
hornes
,
because
his
wife
is
too
honest
,
yet
like
an
Asse
for
his
Iealousie
,
hee
shall
haue
a
long
paire
of
eares
whiles
he
liues
.
Thus
was
the
order
of
these
Cuckolds
discourst
vnto
me
,
which
assoone
as
I
heard
I
went
on
further
to
spie
any
worth
the
noting
,
much
I
saw
that
were
friuolous
to
rehearse
,
as
diuers
women
that
were
hangd
vp
by
the
tongues
for
scolding
,
and
especially
one
Botchers
wife
of
Sudbury
,
who
was
so
famous
for
that
Art
(
if
we●
may
tearme
it
a
science
)
that
after
hir
death
,
shee
was
chronicled
amongst
the
successiue
scoldes
hir
neighbours
for
an
Archgossip
in
that
faculty
:
for
hir
husband
being
a
poore
painefull
man
that
liued
by
his
daily
labour
,
came
home
euery
night
and
brought
hir
duely
and
duetifully
●is
groate
,
which
could
not
content
h●r
,
but
shee
would
in
braue
tearmes
abuse
him
,
and
call
him
rascall
and
slau●
;
but
aboue
all
,
prickelowse
,
which
hee
coulde
not
ab●e
:
wherefore
hauing
often
forbad
hir
,
and
seeing
shee
would
take
no
warning
:
on
a
day
tooke
heart
at
grasse
,
and
belabourd
hir
well
in
a
cudgill
:
but
all
would
not
suffice
:
the
more
he
beat
hir
,
the
more
she
cald
him
prickelowse
.
Seeing
stripes
would
not
preuaile
,
he
threatned
to
cut
out
hir
tongue
:
it
is
no
matter
for
that
knaue
quoth
shee
yet
shall
the
stumpe
call
thée
pricklowse
:
at
this
answer●
the
poore
Botcher
was
so
mad
,
that
taking
a
rope
&
tyi●g
it
abo●t
hir
middle
,
hauing
a
well
in
his
yarde
,
and
thereunto
he
let
her
downe
into
the
well
,
and
threatned
to
drowne
hir
:
●ush
all
would
not
preuaile
,
but
she
c●ied
more
vehementlie
:
wherefore
hee
duckt
her
ouer
head
and
eares
,
and
then
when
her
toong
could
not
wag
,
she
heaued
hir
hands
aboue
water
,
and
knack
with
hir
two
nailes
of
hir
thombes
:
then
séeing
nothing
would
preuaile
but
death
,
he
drew
hir
vp
&
left
hir
to
hir
villanie
:
she
aboue
〈◊〉
rest
was
tormented
.
A
litle
below
hir
I
saw
a
Cooke
that
was
a
mad
merry
fellow
,
and
he
sate
demurely
with
a
Cranes
leg
in
his
mouth
,
hauing
no
other
punishment
,
at
this
I
smilde
,
and
asked
the
cause
,
and
it
was
told
me
thus
.
The
tale
of
the
Cooke
,
and
why
he
sate
in
Purgatory
with
a
Cranes
leg
in
his
mouth
.
THere
dwelled
in
Venice
a
Gentleman
called
Signor
Bartolo
,
who
being
one
of
the
Consil
adorie
,
and
greatlie
experienced
in
the
ciuill
law
,
was
much
frequented
of
sundry
sutors
,
amongst
the
rest
there
was
a
gentleman
his
neighbour
,
that
by
fortune
had
caught
some
eight
or
ten
Cranes
,
a
fowle
in
high
estéeme
in
that
Citie
:
these
as
a
thing
of
great
price
hee
bestowed
on
Signor
Bartolo
,
who
accepted
them
with
that
gratefulnes
,
that
so
good
and
bountiful
a
gift
merited
.
Proude
forsooth
of
this
present
he
fedde
them
vp
in
one
of
his
yardes
,
looking
with
great
care
to
them
,
because
the
Venetians
hold
them
so
rare
.
On
a
day
desirous
to
make
his
neighbours
partakers
of
his
dainties
,
●e
bad
diuers
of
them
to
Supper
,
and
commanded
his
Cooke
to
prouide
good
chéere
,
and
amongst
the
rest
,
chargde
him
to
kill
a
Crane
,
and
to
sée
that
it
were
excellently
well
rosted
.
The
Cooke
,
whos●
name
was
Stephano
,
made
all
thinges
in
a
readines
for
Supper
,
and
when
the
time
was
conuenient
,
laide
the
Crane
to
the
fire
.
Now
syr
this
Stephano
was
a
fellow●
that
was
somewhat
amorous
,
and
excellent
at
courting
of
a
Country
wench
;
in
somuch
that
he
was
the
chief
gallant
of
all
the
parish
for
dancing
of
a
Lincolneshire
horne-pipe
in
the
Churchyard
on
sondaies
:
being
thus
well
qualified
,
he
was
generally
loued
of
al
the
gyrles
thereabout
,
and
especially
of
one
in
the
towne
,
whom
he
had
so
long
dallied
withall
,
that
the
maide
fell
sicke
,
and
hir
diseas●
was
thought
to
be
a
Timpany
with
two
héeles
:
wel
howsoeuer
shee
was
spedde
,
and
Stephano
had
done
the
déede
.
This
maide
hearing
what
a
great
feast
should
be
at
signor
Bartoloes
house
,
hied
hir
thither
,
not
onely
to
see
th●
good
cheere
:
but
that
shée
must
feede
hir
eie
with
the
sight
of
hir
Stephano
,
who
now
was
ruffling
and
sweating
in
the
kitchin
;
shée
made
an
excuse
and
came
in
for
fier
,
but
in
an
vnlucky
time
for
the
poore
Cooke
:
for
shée
no
sooner
sawe
the
Crane
but
shée
longd
for
a
leg
,
and
that
so
sore
,
that
there
was
nothing
but
that
or
death
:
whereupon
shée
calde
Stephano
to
hir
,
and
told
him
that
shée
must
needes
haue
a
legge
of
the
Crane
:
for
shée
so
déepely
longd
for
it
,
that
if
shée
had
it
not
,
it
were
able
both
to
cast
hir
away
and
that
shée
went
withall
.
Although
poore
Stephano
alledgde
many
excuses
,
as
the
displeasure
of
his
Maister
,
and
the
feare
of
the
losse
of
his
seruice
:
yet
no
reason
could
preuaile
with
hir
,
who
was
without
reason
:
and
therfore
what
for
loue
hee
bare
hir
,
and
for
dread
of
discredite
that
might
ensue
,
if
for
want
of
hir
longing
shée
shoulde
fall
to
trauell
,
hee
ventred
a
ioint
,
and
when
the
Crane
was
enough
cut
hir
off
a
legge
.
His
wench
thus
satisfied
went
home
:
And
Supper
time
grew
on
,
for
all
the
guests
were
come
,
and
presently
because
it
was
somewhat
late
,
sate
downe
:
where
they
were
serued
very
bountifully
,
at
last
the
dainties
the
Crane
forsooth
,
was
brought
vp
,
and
signior
Bartolo
commaunded
the
Caruer
to
truncke
hir
,
which
when
he
had
done
,
shée
was
set
vpon
the
table
:
the
gentleman
of
the
house
fell
to
distributing
to
his
guests
,
and
at
last
mist
a
legge
,
with
that
looking
about
he
calde
the
Caruer
,
and
askt
him
where
the
other
leg
was
:
Syr
quoth
hee
,
your
Maistership
hath
all
the
Cooke
sent
vp
:
thenquoth
Bartolo
goe
to
the
Cooke
,
&
aske
him
where
the
other
leg
is
:
the
Caruer
went
down
and
did
his
Maisters
commande
;
the
Cooke
thinking
to
face
out
the
matter
,
began
to
smile
:
why
quoth
he
,
we
may
sée
Cranes
are
dainty
in
this
Country
,
when
gentlemen
cannot
tell
how
many
legs
they
haue
?
goe
tell
my
Maister
I
sent
him
vp
as
many
legges
as
shée
had
.
The
fellow
brought
this
newes
to
his
Maister
,
who
in
a
great
chafe
called
for
the
Cooke
,
and
asked
of
him
howe
many
legs
a
Crane
had
:
marry
syr
quoth
he
,
one
:
why
malapert
villeine
quoth
Bartolo
,
mockest
thou
me
before
all
these
gentlemen
?
not
I
syr
quoth
the
Cooke
:
For
I
am
sure
I
haue
drest
many
in
my
life
:
&
hitherto
yet
I
neuer
saw
a
Crane
haue
but
one
leg
.
With
this
answer
Bartolo
was
throughly
inflamed
with
choller
,
but
that
he
would
shew
himselfe
to
be
patient
amongst
his
neighbours
,
he
suppressed
his
anger
with
this
mild
reply
:
Either
,
gentlemen
,
you
may
thinke
I
or
my
Cooke
is
drunke
,
that
hold
a
dispute
about
a
Cranes
legge
:
but
for
that
this
night
I
will
not
bee
impatient
,
I
passe
it
ouer
:
but
to
morrow
morning
all
as
you
are
héere
,
I
humbly
request
you
to
take
so
much
paines
as
to
rise
betimes
,
and
to
be
Iudges
betwéene
me
and
my
man
,
whether
Cranes
haue
two
legs
or
no
:
for
I
haue
eleauen
Cranes
more
,
and
wee
will
early
goe
into
the
yarde
where
they
feede
:
and
this
shall
be
the
wager
betwéene
my
man
and
me
,
if
they
haue
but
one
leg
,
I
will
giue
him
twenty
Duckats
and
a
sute
of
Satten
:
if
they
haue
two
,
hee
shall
haue
twenty
blowes
with
a
cudgill
,
&
I
will
turne
him
quite
out
of
seruice
:
with
this
motion
the
Cooke
seemed
very
wel
contented
,
that
all
the
guests
smilde
to
sée
poore
Stephano
so
obstinate
:
vpon
this
matter
they
began
to
descant
and
fell
into
pleasant
chat
,
and
so
passed
away
the
supper
time
:
at
last
,
although
loth
to
depart
,
yet
euery
man
departed
with
great
thanks
to
Signior
Bartolo
for
their
good
chéere
,
promising
,
very
early
in
the
morning
to
be
with
him
.
Where
we
leaue
them
,
and
againe
to
the
Cooke
,
who
prouided
al
his
trinckets
in
a
readines
,
to
trudge
away
with
bag
and
baggage
the
next
morning
:
for
he
knewe
his
matter
was
nought
;
thus
with
a
heauy
hart
he
passed
away
the
night
,
and
in
the
morning
fell
in
a
slumber
:
but
hee
had
not
long
lien
in
his
dreame
,
but
Bartolo
accompanied
with
his
neighbours
knockt
at
his
mans
chamber
doore
,
and
bad
him
rise
,
that
they
might
end
the
quarrell
:
poore
Stephano
started
vp
and
with
a
heauy
chéere
comming
out
of
his
chamber
,
gaue
his
maister
and
the
rest
the
Bon
Ioure
:
Come
syrrha
quoth
his
maister
,
heere
are
the
gentlemen
my
neighbours
are
come
to
be
equal
censors
of
our
controuersie
:
hold
,
take
the
key
of
the
yard
,
&
open
you
the
doore
,
&
then
let
vs
sée
how
many
legs
a
Crane
hath
:
the
Cooke
tooke
the
key
&
very
easily
opened
the
dore
,
and
entred
in
,
and
all
the
Cranes
,
because
it
was
so
early
,
were
at
strud
,
as
their
custome
is
generally
all
stoode
vpon
one
leg
,
and
held
the
other
vnder
their
wing
.
Stephano
séeing
the
advantage
not
willing
to
let
so
fair
a
ball
fall
to
the
ground
,
〈◊〉
himselfe
:
now
syr
(
quoth
he
)
I
hope
your selfe
&
the
rest
of
the
gentlemen
will
confesse
I
haue
woonne
the
wager
:
for
you
sée
heere
is
neuer
a
Crane
that
hath
more
then
one
legge
.
At
this
séeing
how
nimble
he
was
to
take
the
aduantage
,
they
all
laught
:
Truth
syr
quoth
his
Maister
,
they
stand
now
on
one
leg
,
but
straight
you
shall
sée
me
make
them
all
haue
two
:
with
that
Signor
Bartolo
lifting
vp
his
hande
cried
,
So
ho
;
and
with
that
the
Cranes
let
downe
their
legges
,
and
euery
one
stoode
vpon
two
:
how
now
you
knaue
quoth
his
Maister
,
how
many
legges
hath
a
Crane
?
hath
shee
not
two
?
yes
marry
syr
quoth
hée
,
and
so
would
your
other
Crane
haue
had
,
if
you
had
done
this
:
for
if
your
worship
when
you
had
séene
the
Crane
in
the
platter
had
but
one
legge
,
had
as
lowde
as
you
doe
now
,
cried
,
So
ho
,
why
then
shée
woulde
haue
had
two
legges
as
well
as
these
:
At
this
iest
,
Signor
Bartolo
fell
into
such
a
laughing
and
all
his
guests
with
him
,
that
hee
laught
away
choller
,
and
admitted
〈◊〉
●an
into
his
woonted
fauour
:
whereupon
Stephano
tolde
them
the
whole
discourse
,
what
happened
betwéene
him
and
his
wench
,
and
vppon
this
merrily
they
went
all
to
breakefast
.
Now
Syr
,
although
this
fault
was
forgiuen
:
yet
because
hée
died
not
in
fauour
with
the
Priest
of
the
Parish
,
hee
was
appointed
for
stealing
the
Cranes
leg
to
stand
in
Purgatorie
with
a
legge
in
his
mouth
for
a
certaine
season
.
After
I
had
heard
this
discourse
of
the
Cooke
,
I
went
on
further
to
sée
if
I
coulde
perceiue
any
other
such
Iestes
as
might
make
mee
merry
in
so
melancholicke
a
place
,
at
last
,
as
I
cast
mine
eie
aside
,
I
sawe
where
a
poore
Uickar
sate
with
a
Coale
in
his
mouth
,
I
askde
the
reason
why
he
was
appointed
to
such
punishment
,
and
it
was
answered
me
thus
.
The
tale
of
the
Vickar
of
Bergamo
,
and
why
he
sits
with
a
coale
in
his
mouth
in
purgatorie
.
THere
dwelled
sometime
in
Bergamo
a
vickar
that
was
welbeloued
in
the
towne
,
for
that
he
was
a
boone
companion
,
and
would
not
stick
to
play
at
trumpe
all
day
with
his
parishoners
for
a
pot
or
two
of
Als
,
a
faire
reader
he
was
,
and
pleased
the
people
well
,
marry
for
his
learning
that
was
little
,
and
toongs
he
had
no
more
then
were
in
his
mouth
:
neither
would
hee
trouble
himself
with
the
knowledge
of
many
languages
,
but
applied
his
idle
time
vpon
good
fellowship
.
It
chaunced
that
his
score
growing
very
great
,
and
much
chalke
vpon
the
post
,
his
hostesse
wanting
money
to
pay
the
Maltman
,
waxed
hastie
with
the
vickar
for
hir
debt
,
hee
being
then
bare
of
pence
,
because
his
quarterage
was
not
come
in
,
tould
hir
she
could
not
haue
it
as
yet
,
wherevpon
they
grew
to
words
,
and
from
wordes
●lowes
,
for
masse
Uickar
went
away
with
a
broken
●ead
,
which
driude
him
into
such
a
choller
that
he
sought
al
meanes
how
to
reuenge
,
and
he
laid
his
plot
thus
.
Euery
sunday
morning
afore
masse
all
the
youth
of
the
●arish
did
accustome
to
come
to
the
Alehouse
to
eate
hot
puddings
,
which
was
great
profit
to
the
goodwife
:
now
to
preuent
hir
of
this
commoditie
,
the
vickar
spake
against
it
,
and
forbad
it
openly
:
yet
it
was
not
so
déepely
inueighed
against
,
but
that
diuerse
Sundaies
they
would
make
a
steale
thither
to
breakefast
:
and
one
Sundaye
amongst
the
rest
,
the
whole
crew
being
gathered
together
,
notice
was
giuen
to
the
vickar
:
wherevpon
he
hied
him
thither
,
and
sound
them
all
hard
at
it
by
the
téeth
:
when
they
sawe
masse
vickar
come
in
,
euery
man
rose
vp
and
ranne
away
to
shift
for
himselfe
,
the
hostesse
she
whipt
in
with
hir
puddings
;
so
that
there
was
none
left
in
the
house
but
Maister
vickar
:
who
spying
a
doozen
of
lustie
large
black
puddings
hangde
in
the
Chimney
,
whip
them
into
his
wide
sléeue
,
&
went
his
way
:
he
was
no
sooner
gone
,
but
the
goodwife
comming
out
mist
hir
puddings
,
and
little
suspected
the
Uickar
,
but
thought
some
of
hir
guests
had
caried
them
away
:
whervpon
she
tould
it
to
hir
husband
,
who
let
the
matter
passe
lightly
,
and
wisht
his
wife
to
make
hir
hastily
ready
,
that
they
might
go
to
masse
:
on
goes
she
with
hir
holiday
partlet
,
and
spoonging
hir selfe
vp
,
went
with
hir
husband
to
Church
,
and
came
iust
to
the
seruice
:
wel
maister
Uickar
who
was
in
a
great
chafe
,
mumbled
vp
his
mattins
,
and
after
seruice
was
doone
very
stoutly
got
him
into
the
pulpit
,
and
began
to
fall
to
his
collation
,
his
text
was
vpon
the
Gospell
for
that
daye
,
which
hee
so
coursde
and
can●asde
ouer
that
hee
fell
at
last
to
talke
of
the
breakefast
:
oh
neighbours
quoth
hee
,
as
I
came
this
daye
to
Churchward
,
I
came
into
a
house
,
nay
into
an
Alehouse
,
where
I
found
a
crew
at
breakefast
before
Masse
,
at
a
bloudie
breakefast
,
a
blacke
breakefast
,
yea
neighbours
the
Deuils
breakefast
;
and
with
that
he
threw
his
arms
about
him
with
such
violence
,
that
his
wide
sleeue
vntied
,
the
puddings
fellout
,
and
hit
an
old
wife
on
the
head
that
she
fell
ouer
againe
:
the
hostesse
seeing
hir
doozen
of
puddings
that
she
mist
,
cried
out
to
hir
husband
:
oh
man
,
quoth
she
,
ther
s
the
doozen
of
Puddings
that
were
gone
out
of
the
Chimney
;
hie
thee
least
they
bee
gone
:
at
this
there
was
such
a
laughing
,
and
such
a
rumor
,
that
the
poore
Uickar
was
faine
to
leaue
of
his
collation
,
and
come
downe
to
answer
what
the
Alewife
obiected
against
him
:
but
he
was
so
welbeloued
in
the
parish
,
that
the
Alewife
was
punished
,
and
hir
Sonday
breakefasts
put
downe
by
a
common
consent
of
the
Churchwardens
.
The
Uickar
thus
well
reuengde
of
the
Alewife
,
indeuoured
how
to
make
amends
to
his
parish
,
and
therefore
casting
in
his
head
how
he
might
bring
it
to
passe
;
one
day
as
he
trauelled
towards
Pisa
he
met
a
stranger
,
who
had
certaine
●eathers
in
his
hand
of
a
byrd
called
Apis
Indica
,
which
were
long
and
large
,
of
the
colour
of
golde
,
and
were
so
bright
as
scarse
one
could
looke
against
them
:
such
before
were
neuer
séene
in
Italie
.
Masse
Uickar
assoone
as
●ee
saw
these
,
had
a
reach
in
his
head
,
and
iumpt
with
the
trauailer
to
buie
one
,
a
prise
was
pitcht
for
thirtie
Iulios
,
and
Masse
Uickar
paide
it
:
hauing
this
,
home
he
came
,
and
bought
a
case
of
crimsin
Ueluet
imbrodred
with
gold
,
to
put
his
feather
in
,
kéeping
it
with
great
curiositie
and
secrecie
,
making
report
that
he
had
one
of
the
richest
reliques
in
the
worlde
,
and
promising
vpon
Candlemas
day
next
to
shew
it
:
wherevpon
it
was
not
onely
blazed
abroad
throughout
the
towne
,
but
in
all
the
villages
and
hamlets
adioyning
,
that
both
olde
and
yoong
prepared
themselues
to
sée
this
holie
relique
.
Two
of
the
crew
,
who
were
brothers
at
the
breakefast
of
Puddings
,
hearing
these
newes
sought
how
to
be
euen
with
maister
Uickar
:
and
therefore
brought
it
so
to
passe
by
a
wenche
of
the
house
where
the
Uickar
lay
,
that
they
might
sée
the
holie
relique
;
she
brought
them
to
the
chamber
and
the
box
wherein
the
case
lay
in
perfume
,
the
fellow
looking
in
,
and
séeing
a
feather
,
neither
respecting
reason
,
nor
religion
,
tooke
it
out
and
put
it
in
his
bosome
,
and
fild
the
case
full
of
charcoales
that
lay
by
,
and
so
putting
the
case
into
the
box
,
kist
the
wench
and
went
his
waye
.
Seruice
time
being
come
,
maister
vicar
runs
vp
for
his
box
,
claps
it
vnder
his
arme
,
and
away
he
goes
to
Church
:
and
for
that
it
was
Candlemas
day
a
high
day
,
he
sayd
and
soong
a
very
solemne
Masse
;
and
that
being
doone
,
séeing
such
a
multitude
of
people
,
he
got
him
with
a
great
grace
into
the
pulpit
,
and
began
his
text
,
which
after
he
had
ratled
ouer
a
litle
,
he
told
them
what
sundry
reliques
were
left
to
the
Church
for
the
benefit
of
the
people
:
oh
my
maisters
and
good
friends
quoth
he
,
parishioners
and
neighbours
:
You
sée
that
euery
city
héer
about
,
nay
through
the
whole
world
,
hath
some
holy
relique
or
other
,
as
a
blessing
belonging
to
their
corporation
:
but
our
poor●
towne
of
Bergamo
hath
had
none
:
But
now
God
hath
considered
of
your
estate
,
and
hath
sent
you
a
richer
and
more
holy
then
all
the
rest
.
Some
towne
,
quoth
hee
,
hath
a
peece
of
the
crosse
,
or
of
the
nailes
,
or
a
peece
of
the
spoong
,
that
recht
Christ
Uineger
;
at
Roome
there
is
the
speare
that
pierst
his
syde
;
at
Venice
the
Chawbone
of
saint
Marke
,
good
for
the
falling
euill
;
at
Vienna
the
tooth
of
S.
Appolym
wholesome
for
the
toothake
;
at
Pysa
the
hoofe
of
Saint
Loy●s
horse
that
healeth
such
kinde
of
cattell
;
for
the
Swine
Saint
Anthonies
bell
;
for
the
pos●
,
Saint
Dunstones
tonges
;
for
the
Squ●sey
,
Saint
Martins
trough
;
for
the
eye
sight
Saint
Winifrids
girdle
;
for
the
〈◊〉
Saint
Asaphs
Beads
,
and
a
thousand
more
,
which
are
now
néedlesse
to
rehearse
:
but
good
people
,
I
haue
héere
for
your
comfort
one
of
the
feathers
;
yea
one
of
those
holy
and
glorious
feathers
,
that
the
Angell
Gabriell
wore
when
he
saide
Aue
Maria
to
the
mother
of
Christ
:
old●
wiues
,
and
aged
men
,
yea
ritch
and
poore
knéele
downe
,
and
with
ioy
behold
so
great
a
myracle
;
with
that
they
all
fell
vpon
their
knées
,
and
he
puld
foorth
his
box
,
and
drew
foorth
the
case
,
which
when
he
hard
rattle
,
he
maruelled
:
but
when
he
put
his
hand
in
,
and
found
nothing
but
coales
,
his
heart
was
cold
in
his
belly
,
and
he
swet
for
woe
:
yet
hauing
a
knauish
and
a
ready
wit
,
he
sodainly
and
vpon
the
present
shifted
it
thus
.
Good
people
,
quoth
he
,
I
haue
mist
of
my
box
,
and
haue
left
the
wing
of
the
Angell
Gabriell
behind
me
:
but
I
haue
here
a
relique
no
lesse
precious
then
that
,
which
I
thought
not
to
sh●w
you
before
Easter
day
,
and
these
be
the
coales
that
Saint
Lawrence
the
holy
Martyr
was
broild
with
,
and
with
that
he
drew
the
Charcoale
out
of
his
poake
:
these
parishioners
quoth
he
,
euen
the
very
marke
that
is
made
with
these
,
is
good
against
all
euill
spirits
,
against
blasting
and
witchcraft
;
and
therefore
séeing
it
is
the
will
of
God
I
should
shew
you
these
first
,
I
will
come
downe
and
marke
you
all
with
the
holy
relique
of
Saint
Lawrence
;
so
he
s●ept
downe
out
of
the
pulpit
,
and
crost
them
all
to
his
great
prof●t
,
and
their
content
:
for
which
cause
in
that
●e
mockt
thé
people
,
he
is
appointed
to
stand
〈◊〉
purgatorie
with
a
coale
in
his
mouth
.
The
vickars
tale
of
Bergamo
being
ended
,
I
went
further
,
and
presently
I
espyed
a
little
doore
,
whereout
issued
a
most
fearefull
noise
tempered
with
such
far
fetcht
sighes
and
gréeuous
shrikes
,
that
it
was
a
sound
mu●h
to
be
pitied
:
the
smalenesse
of
the
voice
discouered
that
they
were
women
.
Wherevpon
I
pressed
more
n●re
the
doore
,
and
looked
in
at
a
little
chinke
,
and
there
I
might
sée
a
company
of
beautifull
women
of
all
ages
pit●fully
tormented
,
as
sitting
in
a
place
full
of
smoake
and
stincking
sauors
,
and
bitten
continually
about
the
hearts
with
scorpions
:
in
all
there
were
not
aboue
thrée
of
them
,
and
yet
they
vttered
as
gréeuous
laments
as
though
there
had
béene
a
thousand
.
I
demaunded
why
these
were
punished
aboue
the
rest
;
they
said
,
they
were
such
as
died
maides
and
kept
their
virginitie
without
spots
,
that
hated
men
;
and
for
that
they
were
so
hard
harted
,
they
were
adiudged
to
that
sharpe
punishment
.
Straight
as
I
cast
mine
eye
vp
,
I
spide
in
a
blind
corner
where
a
Painter
sat
,
hauing
the
picture
of
a
roode
hung
before
him
,
and
euery
time
he
looked
vpon
it
,
he
had
thrée
bastanados
ouer
the
shoulders
with
a
belroape
,
as
of
the
rest
,
so
I
inquirde
the
cause
of
this
,
and
it
was
discourst
to
me
thus
.
The
tale
of
the
Painter
of
Doncaster
,
and
why
in
purgatorie
he
was
beaten
with
a
Belroape
.
I
Know
you
are
not
ignorant
,
how
in
king
Edward
the
sixts
dayes
all
popery
and
superstition
was
banished
,
and
thè
light
of
the
Gospell
puld
from
vnder
the
Bushell
where
it
was
couered
,
and
to
the
sight
and
comfort
of
all
set
vpon
a
hill
:
so
that
all
his
reliques
were
abolished
,
and
his
idols
puld
downe
,
and
the
Church
as
néere
as
they
could
,
cleansed
from
the
●regs
of
such
an
Antichrist
:
wherevpon
the
Painters
that
liude
with
such
●rash
,
as
trimming
of
shrines
and
roodes
,
altars
and
Saints
,
and
the
caruers
that
made
such
images
,
were
faine
with
Alexander
the
Copper-smith
to
crie
out
against
Paule
and
his
doctrine
,
hauing
so
little
worke
that
they
almost
forgot
their
occupation
.
●nt
when
for
the
sinnes
of
this
land
,
and
wickednesse
of
the
people
,
the
Lord
tooke
away
their
good
king
,
and
depriued
them
of
the
swéete
Manna
of
the
Gospell
,
and
sent
them
againe
Antichrist
with
all
his
traditions
,
Quéene
Marie
lawfull
successor
in
the
kingdome
;
made
proclamation
,
that
all
those
roodes
which
were
puld
downe
,
should
be
set
vp
againe
in
euery
Church
.
Amongst
the
rest
,
the
Church
of
Doncaster
in
Yorkeshire
,
desiring
to
be
one
of
the
formost
,
to
signifie
their
obedience
and
deuotion
,
in
all
hast
sent
for
the
Painter
to
make
them
a
roode
,
and
agréed
vpon
the
price
.
Wherevpon
he
went
about
his
worke
,
but
for
that
his
hand
had
béene
out
of
vse
by
the
space
of
six
yéeres
,
he
had
forgot
the
lineaments
of
the
visage
,
and
the
other
woonted
proportion
,
that
he
made
it
very
hard
fauourde
;
yet
as
euery
mans
worke
séemes
well
to
himselfe
,
he
went
forward
withall
and
set
it
vp
on
a
satterday
at
night
on
the
Roodloft
:
on
sunday
at
masse
there
was
old
ringing
of
Bels
,
and
old
and
yoong
came
to
church
to
sée
the
new
roode
,
which
was
so
ill
fauourde
,
that
all
the
parish
mislikt
it
,
&
the
children
they
cried
and
were
afraid
of
it
:
vpon
this
they
fell
in
greate
displeasure
with
the
painter
,
&
when
monday
came
,
and
he
was
with
the
chéese
of
the
parish
for
his
money
,
they
denyed
flatly
to
pay
him
any
,
because
his
worke
was
so
ill
wrought
.
He
vpon
that
cald
them
before
the
maior
of
the
towne
,
who
was
a
man
that
fauored
king
Cowards
religion
,
as
far
as
he
durst
,
&
to
him
the
painter
made
his
complaint
,
that
the
parishoners
now
that
hee
had
made
their
roode
,
would
not
pay
him
his
money
:
the
Maior
demaunded
of
them
why
they
denide
him
paiment
:
they
answered
,
for
that
he
had
like
a
bungler
made
Christ
so
hard
fauored
,
that
it
was
not
only
vnfit
to
stand
in
any
church
,
but
their
children
were
afraid
to
looke
on
it
:
so
that
euery
way
it
should
greatly
hinder
deuotion
.
But
yet
quoth
the
maior
,
the
poore
man
hath
done
his
goodwil
,
you
must
consider
his
hand
hath
b●n
long
out
of
vse
,
&
therfore
there
is
no
reason
though
his
cunning
hath
failde
him
,
but
you
should
pay
him
his
mony
:
well
syr
quoth
they
,
at
your
request
we
will
giue
him
what
our
bargaine
was
:
but
we
must
buie
a
new
rood
,
and
cannot
tell
what
to
do
with
the
old
:
marry
neighbors
quoth
the
Maior
,
if
he
wil
not
serue
you
for
a
god
,
follow
my
aduise
,
clap
a
paire
of
●ornes
on
his
head
,
and
I
warrant
you
hee
will
prooue
an
excellent
good
deuill
:
and
that
sir
,
quoth
the
painter
,
will
I
doe
ouer
and
beside
their
bargaine
.
Thus
were
the
poore
parishioners
of
Doncaster
mockt
,
and
yet
paid
their
money
:
but
their
Uickar
so
delt
with
bell
,
booke
,
and
candle
against
the
poore
painter
for
making
the
ill
fauoured
roode
,
that
he
s●s
in
purgatorie
beaten
with
a
Belroape
.
The
tale
of
the
Painter
being
ended
,
passing
a
little
further
,
I
might
see
where
sat
a
crew
of
men
that
woar●
Baie
garlands
on
theyr
heads
,
and
they
were
Poets
,
amongst
which
was
ould
Ennius
;
Virgill
,
Iuuenall
,
Propertius
,
and
wanton
Ouid
,
Martiall
,
Horace
,
and
many
moe
:
which
had
written
lasciuious
verse
,
or
other
heroicall
poems
.
But
aboue
them
all
I
marked
ould
Ronsard
,
and
he
sat
there
with
a
scroule
in
his
hand
,
wherin
was
written
the
description
of
Cassandra
his
Mistresse
,
and
because
his
stile
is
not
common
,
nor
haue
I
heard
our
English
Poets
write
in
that
vaine
,
marke
it
,
and
I
will
rehearse
it
,
for
I
haue
learnd
it
by
heart
.
RONSARDS
DESCRIPTION
OF
his
Mistresse
,
which
he
weares
in
his
hand
in
Purgatorie
.
DOwne
I
sat
,
I
sat
downe
,
where
Flora
had
bestowed
hir
graces
:
Greene
it
was
,
It
was
greene
Far
surpassing
other
places
,
For
art
and
nature
did
combine
With
sights
to
witch
the
gasers
eyne
.
There
I
sat
,
I
sat
there
viewing
of
this
pride
of
places
:
Straight
I
saw
,
I
saw
straight
the
sweetest
faire
of
all
faire
faces
:
Such
a
face
as
did
containe
,
Heauens
shine
in
euery
vaine
.
I
did
looke
,
Looke
did
I
,
and
there
I
saw
Appollos
wyers
,
Bright
they
were
,
They
were
bright
,
with
them
Auroras
head
he
tiers
,
But
this
I
woondred
how
that
now
They
shadowed
in
Cassandras
brow
.
Still
I
gazde
,
I
gazde
still
,
spying
Lunas
milke
white
glase
:
Comixt
fine
,
Fine
comixt
,
with
the
mornings
ruddie
blase
:
This
white
and
red
their
seating
seekes
Vpon
Cassandraes
smiling
cheekes
.
Two
stars
then
,
Then
two
stars
passing
Sunne
or
Moone
in
shine
Appearde
there
,
There
appearde
and
were
forsooth
my
Mistres
●ine
:
From
whence
prowde
Cupid
threw
his
fiers
To
set
a
flame
all
mens
desiers
,
Brests
shee
had
,
Shee
had
brests
white
like
the
siluer
doue
;
Lie
there
did
,
There
did
lie
Cupid
ouergrowne
with
loue
,
And
in
the
vale
that
parts
the
paine
Pitcht
his
tent
there
to
remaine
.
This
was
shee
,
Shee
was
this
the
fairest
faire
that
ere
I
see
;
I
did
muse
,
Muse
did
I
how
such
a
creature
found
could
be
;
A
voice
replied
from
the
Aire
,
Shee
alone
and
none
so
faire
.
This
was
Ronsards
description
of
his
Mistres
,
and
he
is
for●ll
to
hold
it
in
his
hande
,
that
euery
time
hee
cast●
his
eies
on
it
,
he
may
with
●ghs
féel
a
secret
torment
,
in
that
he
once
loued
toomuch
being
aliue
.
A
little
aboue
●ate
the
gh●
of
a
young
gentlewoman
that
had
béene
false
to
hir
husband
,
shée
shoulde
haue
béene
grieuously
tormented
:
but
that
shée
bestowed
an
annuity
for
thrée
yeares
pension
vpon
a
morrow
masse
priest
,
who
so
laboured
it
with
dirges
,
trentals
and
masses
Ad
requiem
,
that
shée
had
no
other
punishment
but
this
,
that
hir
beautifull
haire
wherein
shee
so
much
delighted
,
and
whose
tramels
was
a
traine
to
intrappe
young
gentlemen
,
that
nowe
was
clipt
off
bare
to
the
scull
,
and
so
shée
sate
ashamde
and
mourning
:
the
cause
as
I
learnde
was
this
.
Why
the
gentlewoman
of
Lions
sate
with
hir
haire
clipt
off
in
Purgatorie
.
IN
the
Citie
of
Lions
there
dwelt
a
gentleman
of
good
account
amongst
his
neighbors
,
called
Monsieur
Perow
;
this
gentleman
hauing
lands
and
reuenues
sufficient
to
maintaine
his
estate
,
thought
fully
to
heape
to
himselfe
content
,
and
therefore
sought
out
a
yong
virgin
of
equall
parentage
to
himselfe
,
with
whom
he
had
a
sufficient
dowry
,
and
hir
he
loued
,
and
shée
likte
him
,
and
so
they
maried
,
liuing
in
good
estimation
amongst
their
Tenants
.
As
they
were
thus
linked
together
in
wedlocke
,
so
it
séemde
in
outward
appearance
that
they
were
so
strictly
tied
in
affection
,
as
no
meanes
might
alienate
.
But
women
,
whom
nature
hath
framde
to
be
inconstant
,
cannot
be
altred
by
nurture
.
The
Palme
will
grow
straight
though
it
bee
neuer
so
depressed
;
and
a
wanton
will
bee
a
wanton
,
were
shee
married
to
Cupid
,
and
so
it
proude
by
Maria
;
for
so
was
the
gentlewomans
name
:
who
because
shée
was
faire
had
many
Sutors
,
that
attempted
to
bee
riuals
with
hir
husband
in
hir
loue
;
amongst
the
rest
as
shée
resolued
to
choose
one
,
there
was
a
yong
amorous
youth
of
Lions
calde
Pier
,
he
sought
diuers
meanes
to
créepe
into
hir
fauor
,
past
by
hir
house
,
and
cast
vp
looks
that
pleaded
for
pitty
,
and
had
banded
him
again
glances
that
foreshewed
good
will
:
Thus
with
interchange
of
fauours
they
liued
.
Pier
séeking
oportunity
how
to
reueale
his
minde
to
Maria
,
at
last
as
hee
walked
one
day
forth
the
towne
,
he
saw
where
shee
was
walking
only
with
one
of
hir
maides
,
taking
therefore
oportunity
by
the
forehead
he
stept
to
hir
,
and
beganne
to
court
hir
with
sundry
protestations
of
his
loue
,
which
had
béen
long
and
so
surely
set
as
no
dispaire
coulde
race
out
,
promising
not
onely
to
be
a
faithfull
seruant
in
constancie
:
but
to
bee
so
carefull
of
hir
honour
as
of
his
owne
life
:
&
for
your
grauitie
,
think
Mistres
quoth
he
,
that
faults
in
affections
are
sleight
follics
,
that
Venus
hath
shrines
to
shade
hir
trewants
,
&
Cupids
wings
are
shelters
for
such
as
venter
far
to
content
their
thoughts
,
vnseene
is
halfe
pardoned
,
and
loue
requires
not
chastity
,
but
that
hir
Souldiers
be
chary
.
Maria
hearing
the
wag
thus
play
the
Orator
,
hauing
loue
in
hir
eies
and
desire
in
heart
,
after
a
fewe
faint
denials
,
thrusting
him
away
with
the
little
●inger
,
and
pulling
him
to
hir
with
the
whole
hande
,
shée
graunted
him
that
fauour
to
be
cald
hir
seruant
.
Grarde
thus
he
grewe
in
such
credite
,
that
there
was
no
man
with
Maria
but
Pier
,
hauing
thus
a
loue
beside
hir
husband
,
although
hee
was
a
faire
man
and
well
featured
;
yet
shée
found
fault
with
him
,
because
he
was
a
meacocke
and
a
milkesoppe
,
not
daring
to
drawe
his
sworde
to
reuenge
hir
wrongs
:
wherefore
shee
resolued
to
entertaine
some
Souldier
,
and
so
shée
did
:
for
one
Signor
Lamberto
a
braue
Gentleman
;
but
some
thing
harde
facde
,
sought
hir
fauour
and
founde
it
,
and
him
shée
intertained
for
hir
Champion
.
Thus
had
shée
a
white
liuerd
Adon
to
féede
hir
eie
with
beauty
,
and
a
stoute
Hercules
to
reuenge
all
hir
wrongs
with
his
sworde
,
and
a
poore
husband
to
shadowe
both
with
his
hornes
.
Liuing
thus
contentedly
in
hir
owne
conceite
,
hir
husband
went
into
the
Country
to
a
Farme
of
his
,
and
thither
with
him
hee
carried
his
wife
,
where
hee
passed
away
many
merry
daies
in
such
pleasure
,
as
Country
sports
can
affoord
:
at
last
serious
affairs
forcing
him
to
it
,
he
rid
his
way
for
thrée
or
foure
daies
to
certaine
of
his
friends
there
adioining
.
Maria
seeing
hir
husband
gone
thought
not
to
let
time
slippe
,
nor
to
lose
oportunity
:
and
therefore
the
next
day
after
sent
for
Pier
,
who
hasted
as
fast
as
might
be
,
till
he
came
to
his
Mistres
,
where
he
had
such
friendly
intertainement
as
fitted
both
their
humours
;
shée
caused
hir
maide
to
make
great
chéere
,
and
assoone
as
it
was
ready
,
to
dinner
they
went
,
where
they
were
scarce
set
but
one
knocked
at
the
doore
,
the
maide
looked
out
and
it
was
Signor
Lamberto
,
shée
ran
and
told
hir
Mistres
;
who
fearefull
that
he
should
sée
Pier
or
know
of
him
,
hid
him
vnder
the
bed
,
and
commanded
hir
maide
to
bid
Signor
Lamberto
come
vp
:
shee
like
a
cunning
Curtizan
giuing
him
such
fauourable
intertainement
as
though
hee
were
the
man
whom
aboue
all
other
shée
made
account
off
.
Faith
swéete
(
quoth
hee
)
I
heard
thy
husband
was
from
home
,
and
so
I
tooke
my
nag
and
came
gallopping
hither
:
set
him
into
the
stable
quoth
the
Mistres
:
No
quoth
(
Signor
Lamberto
)
let
him
bee
there
still
and
bite
of
the
bridle
,
for
my
busines
is
such
,
as
I
will
onely
dine
with
you
,
and
then
bid
you
farewell
:
with
that
he
sate
him
downe
to
dinner
.
Poore
Pier
lying
close
vnder
the
bed
;
thinking
euery
minute
an
houre
till
he
were
gone
:
as
thus
they
sate
in
their
cuppes
and
were
wantonly
qua●ing
one
to
another
;
came
in
the
maide
running
,
and
said
,
hir
Maister
came
riding
:
at
this
Signor
Lamberto
started
vp
and
was
amazed
:
but
the
gentlewoman
was
in
a
feare
that
had
two
louers
at
once
in
hir
house
,
and
yet
could
haue
hidden
them
both
had
it
not
béene
for
the
horse
that
stoode
tied
in
the
Court
yarde
:
well
a
shift
must
bee
had
,
&
where
sooner
then
out
of
a
womans
head
.
What
shall
I
doe
quoth
Signor
Lamberto
?
marry
I
pray
you
good
swéet
heart
quoth
shée
,
to
saue
your
owne
credite
and
mine
,
drawe
your
sworde
and
goe
downe
the
staires
,
and
as
you
goe
,
sweare
&
say
,
that
you
shall
finde
a
time
and
place
more
conuenient
,
when
you
will
bee
reuengde
to
the
vttermost
;
so
he
did
,
&
by
that
time
was
the
gentleman
of
the
house
come
in
,
who
maruailed
to
sée
a
horse
tied
in
the
Court
,
and
therefore
alighting
off
came
vp
the
staires
,
and
as
he
came
,
met
Lamberto
with
his
sworde
drawne
,
and
his
face
full
of
frownes
,
swearing
,
when
fitter
time
and
place
shoulde
serue
hee
woulde
reuenge
and
that
with
extremitie
.
What
is
the
matter
quoth
the
Master
of
the
house
?
he
answerd
nothing
,
but
put
vp
his
sword
,
tooke
horse
&
away
towards
Lions
.
Assoone
as
the
gentleman
came
vp
,
he
found
his
wife
amazde
,
sitting
in
the
hall
in
the
middest
of
the
flowre
,
as
halfe
beside
hir selfe
:
what
is
the
matter
wife
(
quoth
hée
)
that
thou
art
so
amazed
,
and
that
Signor
Lamberto
went
downe
with
his
sworde
drawne
in
such
a
rage
?
Ah
husband
(
quoth
shée
)
as
I
sate
héere
at
my
worke
,
came
running
into
the
court
yarde
a
proper
young
man
hauing
throwne
away
his
Cloake
and
his
Hatte
,
and
desired
mee
,
as
I
tendered
the
state
of
a
man
,
to
saue
his
life
,
for
Signor
Lamberto
would
kill
him
:
I
pittying
his
case
stept
in
and
hidde
him
in
my
bedchamber
:
with
that
came
Signor
Lamberto
gallopping
,
dismounted
in
the
court
and
drawing
his
sworde
,
came
running
vp
and
woulde
haue
broken
open
my
chamber
dore
,
but
that
on
my
knées
I
intreated
him
to
the
contrary
:
at
my
request
hee
went
his
way
,
frowning
as
you
sée
,
and
so
hee
is
rode
to
Lions
:
the
poore
young
man
(
alas
)
husband
lies
hidde
vnder
the
bed
in
great
feare
:
and
this
tale
shée
tolde
so
lowde
that
Pier
heard
euery
worde
,
and
therefore
had
his
lesson
what
hee
should
answere
:
smyling
at
the
prompt
witte
of
his
Mistres
that
had
so
sodaine
a
shift
.
Bidde
him
come
out
wife
quoth
he
:
then
shée
oapt
the
doore
,
and
Pier
he
came
as
one
greatly
affrighted
from
vnder
the
bedde
.
The
gentleman
séeing
him
a
proper
young
man
and
weaponlesse
,
had
pittie
on
him
and
saide
:
hee
was
glad
that
his
house
was
a
sanctuary
for
him
,
and
greatly
commended
his
wife
that
shée
had
saued
him
from
the
fury
of
Signor
Lamberto
,
whom
all
Lions
accounted
a
most
desperate
man
:
vpon
this
taking
Pier
by
the
hand
they
sate
downe
to
dinner
,
and
when
they
had
taken
their
repast
,
the
gentleman
very
curteously
conducted
Pier
home
to
Lions
.
Now
for
because
shée
was
thus
inconstant
,
shée
to
qualitie
hir
pride
and
insolencie
,
sate
in
Purgatory
with
the
punishment
afore
rehearsed
.
This
tale
béeing
ended
,
I
lookde
a
little
further
,
and
I
might
sée
where
a
young
man
and
a
young
woman
sate
together
naked
from
the
middle
vpward
,
and
a
very
olde
man
whipping
of
them
with
nettles
:
they
as
persons
that
little
regarded
his
punishment
,
woulde
often times
kisse
,
and
then
the
olde
man
as
one
inwardly
vexed
,
woulde
bestirre
all
his
strength
to
torment
them
:
the
reason
of
this
strange
shewe
was
thus
discourst
vnto
mee
.
The
tale
of
the
two
Louers
of
Pisa
,
and
why
they
were
whipt
in
Purgatory
with
nettles
.
IN
Pisa
a
famous
Cittie
of
Italie
,
there
liued
a
gentleman
of
good
linage
and
landes
,
feared
as
well
for
his
wealth
as
honoured
for
his
vertue
;
but
indéede
well
thought
on
for
both
:
yet
the
better
for
his
riches
.
This
Gentleman
had
one
onely
Daughter
called
Margaret
,
who
for
hir
beauty
was
liked
of
all
and
desired
of
many
;
but
neither
might
their
sutes
,
nor
hir
owne
eie
preuaile
about
hir
fathers
resolution
,
who
was
determined
not
to
marry
hir
,
but
to
such
a
man
as
should
be
able
in
abundance
to
maintaine
the
excellencie
of
hir
beautie
.
Diuers
young
gentlemen
proffered
large
●ments
,
but
in
vaine
:
a
maide
shée
must
bee
still
till
at
last
an
olde
Doctor
in
the
towne
that
professed
Phisicke
,
became
a
sutor
to
hir
,
who
was
a
welcome
man
to
hir
father
,
in
that
he
was
one
of
the
welthiest
men
in
all
Pisa.
A
tall
stripling
he
was
and
a
proper
youth
,
his
age
about
foure
score
,
his
heade
as
white
as
milke
,
wherein
for
offence
sake
there
was
left
neuer
a
tooth
:
but
it
is
no
matter
,
what
he
wanted
in
person
he
had
in
the
purse
,
which
the
poore
gentlewoman
little
regarded
,
wishing
rather
to
tie
hir selfe
to
one
that
might
fit
hir
content
,
though
they
liued
meanely
,
then
to
him
with
all
the
wealth
in
Italie
.
But
shée
was
young
and
forest
to
follow
hir
fathers
direction
,
who
vpon
large
couenants
was
content
his
daughter
should
marry
with
the
Doctor
,
and
whether
shée
likt
him
or
no
,
the
match
was
made
vp
,
and
in
short
time
shée
was
married
.
The
poore
wench
was
bound
to
the
stake
,
and
had
not
onely
an
olde
impotent
man
:
but
one
that
was
so
iealous
,
as
none
might
enter
into
his
house
without
suspition
,
nor
shée
doe
any
thing
without
blame
:
the
least
glance
,
the
smallest
countenance
,
any
smile
was
a
manifest
instance
to
him
,
that
shée
thought
of
others
better
then
himselfe
:
thus
he
himselfe
liued
in
a
hell
and
tormented
his
wife
in
as
ill
perpleritie
.
At
last
it
chaunced
,
that
a
young
Gentleman
of
the
Citie
comming
by
hir
house
,
and
seeing
hir
looke
out
at
hir
windowe
,
noting
hir
rare
and
excellent
proportion
,
fell
in
loue
with
hir
,
and
that
so
extreamely
,
as
his
passions
had
no
meanes
till
hir
fauour
might
mittigate
his
heartsicke
discontent
.
The
young
man
that
was
ignorant
in
amorous
matters
and
had
neuer
béene
vsed
to
Court
anie
Gentlewomen
,
thought
to
reueale
his
passions
to
some
one
friend
,
that
might
giue
him
counsaile
for
the
winning
of
hir
loue
,
and
thinking
experience
was
the
surest
Maister
,
on
a
day
seeing
the
olde
Doctour
walking
in
the
Churche
that
was
Margarets
husbande
,
little
knowing
who
he
was
,
he
thought
this
the
fittest
man
to
whom
he
might
discouer
his
passions
,
for
that
hee
was
olde
and
knewe
much
,
and
was
a
Phisition
that
with
his
drugges
might
helpe
him
forward
in
his
purposes
:
so
that
séeing
the
olde
man
walke
solitary
hee
ioind
vnto
him
,
and
after
a
curteous
salute
,
tolde
him
that
he
was
to
impart
a
matter
of
great
import
vnto
him
;
wherein
if
hee
woulde
not
onely
be
secrete
,
but
indeuour
to
pleasure
him
,
his
paines
should
bee
euery
way
to
the
full
considered
.
You
must
imagine
gentleman
,
quoth
Mutio
,
for
so
was
the
Doctors
name
,
that
men
of
our
profession
are
no
blabs
,
but
hold
their
secrets
in
their
hearts
bottome
,
and
therfore
reueale
what
you
please
,
it
shall
not
onely
be
concealed
;
but
cured
,
if
either
my
Art
or
counsail
may
do
it
.
Upon
this
Lionel
,
so
was
the
yong
gentleman
called
,
tolde
and
discourst
vnto
him
from
point
to
point
howe
he
was
fallen
in
loue
with
a
gentlewoman
that
was
maried
to
one
of
his
profession
,
discouered
hir
dwelling
and
the
house
,
and
for
that
hee
was
vnacquainted
with
the
woman
,
and
a
man
little
experienced
in
loue
matters
,
he
required
his
fauour
to
further
him
with
his
aduise
.
Mutio
at
this
motion
was
stung
to
the
heart
,
knowing
it
was
his
wife
hee
was
fallen
in
loue
withall
:
yet
to
conceale
the
matter
and
to
experience
his
wiues
chastity
,
and
that
if
shée
plaid
false
he
might
be
reuengde
on
them
both
;
he
dissembled
the
matter
and
answered
,
that
hee
knewe
the
woman
very
well
,
and
commended
hir
highly
;
but
said
,
shée
had
a
Churle
to
hir
husband
:
and
therefore
he
thought
shée
woulde
bee
the
more
tractable
:
trie
hir
man
quoth
hee
,
saint
heart
neuer
woonne
faire
Ladie
:
and
if
shée
will
not
be
brought
to
the
bent
of
your
bowe
,
I
will
prouide
such
a
potion
as
shall
dispatch
all
to
your
owne
content
,
and
to
giue
you
further
instructions
for
oportunitie
,
know
that
hir
husband
is
forth
euery
after
noone
from
thrée
till
sixe
.
Thus
farre
I
haue
aduised
you
,
because
I
pitty
your
passions
as
my selfe
being
once
a
louer
:
but
now
I
charge
thée
reucale
it
to
none
whomsoeuer
,
least
it
doo
disp●rage
my
credit
to
meddle
in
amorous
matters
.
The
yoong
Gentleman
not
onely
promised
al
carefull
secrecie
,
but
gaue
him
harty
thanks
for
his
good
counsell
,
promising
to
méete
him
there
the
next
day
,
and
tell
him
what
newes
.
Then
hee
left
the
old
man
,
who
was
almost
mad
for
feare
his
wife
any
way
should
play
false
:
he
saw
by
experience
,
braue
men
came
to
besiege
the
castle
,
and
séeing
it
was
in
a
womans
custodie
and
had
so
weake
a
gouernor
as
himselfe
,
he
doubted
it
would
in
time
be
deliuered
vp
,
which
feare
made
him
almost
frantike
:
yet
he
driude
of
the
time
in
great
torment
,
til
he
might
heare
from
his
riual
.
Lionello
he
hasts
him
home
and
sutes
him
in
his
brauery
,
and
goes
downe
towards
the
house
of
Mutio
,
where
he
sées
hir
at
the
window
,
whome
he
courted
with
a
passionate
looke
with
such
an
humble
salute
,
as
she
might
perceiue
how
the
Gentleman
was
affectionate
.
Margareta
looking
earnestly
vpon
him
,
and
noting
the
perfection
of
his
proportion
,
accompted
him
in
hir
eye
the
flower
of
all
Pisa
,
thinkte
hir selfe
fortunate
,
if
she
might
haue
him
for
hir
fréend
,
to
supply
those
defaults
that
she
found
in
Mutio
:
sundry
times
that
afternoone
he
past
by
hir
window
,
and
he
cast
not
vp
more
louing
lookes
then
he
receiued
gratious
fauoures
:
which
did
so
incourage
him
,
that
the
next
day
betwéene
thrée
and
sixe
hee
went
to
hir
house
,
and
knocking
at
the
doore
,
desired
to
speake
with
the
Mistres
of
the
house
,
who
hearing
by
hir
maids
description
,
what
he
was
,
commaunded
him
to
come
in
,
where
she
interteined
him
with
all
curtesie
.
The
youth
that
neuer
before
had
giuen
the
attempt
to
court
a
Ladie
,
began
his
exordium
with
a
blush
:
and
yet
went
forward
so
well
,
that
hee
discourst
●nto
hir
howe
hee
loued
hir
,
and
that
if
it
might
please
hir
so
to
accept
of
his
seruice
,
as
of
a
friend
euer
vowde
in
all
dutie
to
bee
at
hir
commaunde
,
the
care
of
hir
honour
should
bee
deerer
to
him
then
his
life
,
and
he
would
be
ready
to
prise
hir
discontent
with
his
bloude
at
all
times
.
The
Gentlewoman
was
a
little
coye
,
but
before
they
past
they
concluded
,
that
the
next
day
at
foure
of
the
clock
he
should
come
thither
and
eate
a
pounde
of
cheries
,
which
was
resolued
on
with
a
succado
des
labres
,
and
so
with
a
loath
to
depart
they
tooke
their
leaues
.
Lionello
as
ioyfull
a
man
as
might
be
,
hyed
him
to
the
church
to
méete
his
ould
Doctor
,
where
he
found
him
in
his
ould
walke
:
what
newes
syr
quoth
Mutio
?
how
haue
you
sped
?
Euen
as
I
can
wish
quoth
Lionello
.
For
I
haue
béene
with
my
Mistresse
,
and
haue
found
hir
so
tractable
,
that
I
hope
to
make
the
ould
peasaunt
hir
husband
looke
broad
headed
by
a
paire
of
browantlers
.
How
déepe
this
stroake
into
Mutios
heart
,
let
them
imagine
that
can
coniecture
what
ielousie
is
;
in
so
much
that
the
ould
Doctor
askt
when
should
be
the
time
:
marry
quoth
Lionello
,
to
morrow
at
foure
of
the
clock
in
the
afternoone
,
and
then
Maister
Doctor
quoth
hee
;
will
I
dub
the
ould
Squire
knight
of
the
forked
order
.
Thus
they
past
on
in
chat
till
it
grew
late
,
and
then
Lionello
went
home
to
his
lodging
,
and
Mutio
to
his
house
,
couering
all
his
sorrowes
with
a
merry
countenance
,
with
full
resolution
to
reuenge
them
both
the
next
day
with
extremitie
.
He
past
the
night
as
patientlye
as
he
could
,
and
the
next
day
after
dinner
away
he
went
,
watching
when
it
should
bee
foure
of
the
clocke
,
at
the
houre
iust
came
Lionello
,
and
was
intertained
with
all
curtesie
:
but
scarce
had
they
kist
,
ere
the
maide
cryed
out
to
hir
Mistresse
that
hir
Maister
was
at
the
doore
:
for
he
hasted
,
knowing
that
a
horne
was
but
a
little
while
on
grafting
:
Margaret
at
this
alarum
was
amazed
,
and
yet
for
a
shift
●pt
Lionello
into
a
great
drie
fat
full
of
feathers
,
and
sat
hir
downe
close
to
hir
worke
:
by
that
came
Mutio
in
blowing
,
and
as
though
hee
came
to
looke
somewhat
in
hast
,
called
for
the
keyes
of
his
Chambers
,
and
looked
in
euery
place
,
searching
so
narrowlie
in
euery
corner
of
the
house
,
that
he
left
not
the
verie
priuie
vnsearcht
:
seeing
he
could
not
finde
him
,
hee
said
nothing
,
but
fayning
himselfe
not
well
at
ease
staide
at
home
,
so
that
poore
Lionello
was
faine
to
staie
in
the
drie
fatte
till
the
ould
churle
was
in
bed
with
his
wife
;
and
then
the
maid
let
him
out
at
a
backdoore
,
who
went
home
with
a
flea
in
his
eare
to
his
lodging
.
Well
the
next
day
he
went
againe
to
méete
his
Doctor
,
whome
hee
found
in
his
woonted
walke
;
what
newes
quoth
Mutio
?
how
haue
you
sped
?
A
pox
of
the
●uld
slaue
quoth
Lionello
,
I
was
no
sooner
in
,
and
had
giuen
my
mistresse
one
kisse
,
but
the
iealous
asse
was
at
the
doore
,
the
maide
spied
him
,
and
cryed
hir
Maister
:
so
that
the
poore
Gentlewoman
for
verye
shift
,
was
faine
to
put
me
in
a
drie-fatte
of
feathers
that
stood
in
an
ould
Chamber
,
and
there
I
was
faine
to
tarrie
while
he
was
in
bed
and
a
sléepe
;
and
then
the
maide
let
me
out
and
I
departed
.
But
it
is
no
matter
,
t
was
but
a
chaunce
,
and
I
hope
to
crie
quittance
with
him
ere
it
be
long
:
as
how
quoth
Mutio
?
Marry
thus
,
quoth
Lionello
:
she
sent
me
worde
by
hir
Maide
this
day
,
that
vpon
thursday
next
the
oulde
Churle
suppeth
with
a
patient
of
his
a
mile
out
of
Pisa
,
and
then
I
feare
not
but
to
quitte
him
for
all
:
It
is
well
quoth
Mutio
:
Fortune
bee
your
fréend
:
I
thanke
you
quoth
Lionello
,
and
so
after
a
little
more
prattle
they
departed
.
To
bee
shorte
,
Thursdaye
came
,
and
about
sixe
of
the
Clocke
foorth
goes
Mutio
,
no
further
then
a
friends
house
of
his
,
from
whence
hee
might
descrie
who
went
into
his
house
,
straight
hee
sawe
Lionello
enter
in
;
and
after
goes
hee
,
insomuch
that
hee
was
scarselie
sitten
downe
,
before
the
Maide
cryed
out
againe
,
my
maister
comes
:
the
good
wife
that
before
had
prouided
for
afterclaps
;
had
found
out
a
priuie
place
betweene
two
seelings
of
a
plauncher
,
and
there
she
thrust
Lionello
;
&
hir
husband
came
sweting
,
what
news
,
quoth
she
,
driues
you
home
againe
so
soone
husband
?
Marrye
swéete
wife
quoth
he
,
a
fearefull
dreame
that
I
had
this
night
which
came
to
my
remembrance
,
&
that
was
this
:
me
thought
there
was
a
villeine
that
came
secretly
into
my
house
with
a
naked
poinard
in
his
hand
,
and
hid
himselfe
:
but
I
could
not
find
the
place
,
with
that
mine
nose
bled
,
and
I
came
backe
;
and
by
the
grace
of
God
I
will
séeke
euery
corner
in
the
house
for
the
quiet
of
my
minde
.
Marry
I
pray
you
doo
husband
,
quoth
she
:
with
that
he
lockt
in
all
the
doores
,
and
began
to
search
euery
chamber
,
euery
hole
,
euery
chest
,
euery
tub
,
the
very
well
,
he
stabd
euery
fetherbed
through
,
and
made
hauock
like
a
mad
man
,
which
made
him
thinke
all
was
in
vaine
,
and
he
began
to
blame
his
eies
that
thought
they
saw
that
which
they
did
not
:
vpon
this
he
rest
halfe
lunatike
,
&
all
night
he
was
very
wakefull
,
that
towards
the
morning
he
fell
into
a
dead
sleepe
,
and
then
was
Lionello
conueighed
away
.
In
the
morning
when
Mutio
wakened
,
hee
thought
how
by
no
meanes
hee
should
be
able
to
take
Lionello
tardy
;
yet
he
laid
in
his
head
a
most
dangerous
plot
,
and
that
was
this
:
Wife
quoth
he
,
I
must
the
next
munday
ride
to
Vycensa
to
visit
an
ould
patient
of
mine
,
till
my
returne
,
which
will
be
some
tendayes
,
I
will
haue
that
stay
at
our
little
graunge
house
in
the
countrey
:
marry
very
well
content
husband
,
quoth
she
:
with
that
he
kist
hir
,
and
was
very
pleasant
,
as
though
he
had
suspected
nothing
,
and
away
he
flings
to
the
Church
:
where
hee
móetes
Lionello
:
what
sir
quoth
he
what
newes
,
is
your
mistresse
yours
in
possession
?
no
,
a
plague
of
the
old
slaue
quoth
he
;
I
thinke
he
is
either
a
witch
or
els
workes
by
Magick
:
for
I
can
no
sooner
enter
in
the
doores
but
he
is
at
my
batke
,
and
●o
〈◊〉
was
againe
yesternight
:
for
I
was
not
●me
in
my
〈◊〉
before
the
maide
cried
,
my
maister
〈◊〉
;
and
then
was
the
poore
soule
saine
to
conueigh
me
between
two
●tings
of
a
chamber
in
a
sit
place
for
the
purpose
:
where
I
●ght
hartely
to
my self
,
to
sée
how
he
sought
euery
corner
,
rans●t
euery
tub
,
and
stabd
euery
●eatherbed
;
but
in
vaine
,
I
was
safe
enough
till
the
morning
,
and
then
when
he
was
fast
a
sléepe
,
I
lipt
out
.
Fortune
frownes
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
quoth
Mutio
:
I
but
I
hope
quoth
Lionello
this
is
the
last
time
;
〈◊〉
she
〈◊〉
begin
to
smile
:
for
on
monday
next
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
to
Vicensa
,
and
his
wise
lies
at
a
graunge
house
a
little
o●he
towne
,
and
there
in
his
absence
I
will
reuenge
alfor●
missor●
:
〈◊〉
send
it
to
be
so
quoth
Mutio
,
〈◊〉
so
〈◊〉
his
〈◊〉
.
These
two
louers
longd
for
monday
;
&
atlast
it
came
,
early
in
the
morning
Mutio
horst
himselfe
,
and
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
a
man
,
and
no
more
,
and
away
●e
〈◊〉
to
his
grang●
house
;
where
after
he
had
broke
his
fast
he
tooke
his
leaue
,
&
away
towards
Vicensa
.
He
rod●
not
far
ere
by
a
false
way
he
returned
into
a
thicket
,
&
there
with
a
company
of
countrie
peasants
lay
in
an
ambuscado
to
take
the
〈◊〉
Gentleman
:
in
the
afternoone
comes
Lionello
galloying
,
and
assoone
as
he
came
within
sight
of
the
house
,
he
sent
backe
his
horse
by
his
boy
,
&
went
easily
a
foot
,
&
there
at
the
●ry
entry
was
enterteind
by
Margaret
,
who
led
him
vp
the
〈◊〉
,
and
conuaid
him
into
hir
bedchamber
saying
be
was
welcome
into
so
meane
a
c●ttage
:
but
quoth
〈◊〉
,
now
I
hope
fortune
shal
not
enuie
the
purity
of
our
loues
.
Alas
alas
mistresse
cried
the
maid
,
héer
is
my
maister
,
&
100.
men
with
him
,
with
bils
&
staues
:
we
are
betraid
quoth
Lionello
,
&
I
am
but
a
dead
man
:
feare
not
quoth
she
,
but
follow
me
,
and
straight
she
carried
him
downe
into
a
low
parlor
;
where
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
an
ould
rottenchest
full
of
writings
,
she
put
him
into
that
,
and
couered
him
with
ould
papers
and
euy●ntes
,
and
went
to
the
gate
to
m●te
hir
husband
:
why
signor
Mutio
,
what
meanes
this
hurly burly
quoth
she
?
vile
&
shamelesse
strumyet
as
thou
art
,
thou
shalt
know
by
and
by
●th
he
.
Where
is
thy
loue
:
all
we
haue
watch
him
&
séene
he
enter
in
:
now
quoth
he
,
shall
neither
thy
tub
of
feathers
,
nor
thy
séeling
serue
,
for
perish
he
shall
with
fire
,
or
els
fall
into
my
hands
.
Doe
thy
worst
iealous
foole
quoth
shée
,
I
aske
thée
no
fauour
:
with
that
in
a
rage
he
beset
the
house
round
,
and
then
set
fire
on
it
.
Oh
in
what
a
perplexitie
was
poore
Lionello
that
was
shut
in
a
Chest
,
and
the
fire
about
his
eares
?
and
how
was
Margaret
passionate
that
knew
hir
louer
in
such
danger
?
yet
shée
made
light
of
the
matter
,
and
as
one
in
a
rage
called
hir
maide
to
hir
,
&
said
;
Come
on
wench
,
seeing
thy
Master
mad
with
iealousie
hath
set
the
house
&
al
my
liuing
on
●re
,
I
wil
be
reuengd
vpon
him
,
helpe
me
here
to
lift
this
olde
Chest
where
all
his
writings
&
deeds
are
,
let
that
burne
first
,
and
assoone
as
I
see
that
on
fire
I
wil
walke
towards
my
friends
:
for
the
olde
foole
will
be
beggard
and
I
will
refuse
him
.
Mutio
that
knew
al
his
obligations
and
statutes
lay
there
puld
hir
backe
,
and
bad
two
of
his
men
carry
the
Chest
into
the
field
,
and
see
it
were
safe
,
himselfe
standing
by
and
seeing
his
house
burnd
downe
sticke
and
stone
.
Then
quieted
in
his
minde
he
went
home
with
his
wife
,
&
began
to
flatter
hir
,
thinking
assuredly
that
he
had
burnd
hir
Paramour
;
causing
his
Chest
to
be
carried
in
a
Cart
to
his
house
at
Pisa.
Margaret
impatient
went
to
hir
mothers
,
and
complainde
to
hir
and
to
hir
brethren
of
the
iealousie
of
hir
husband
:
who
maintained
it
to
bee
true
,
and
desired
but
a
daies
respite
to
prooue
it
:
well
hee
was
bidden
to
supper
the
next
night
at
hir
mothers
,
shee
thinking
to
make
hir
daughter
and
him
friends
againe
.
In
the
meane
time
he
to
his
woonted
walke
in
the
Church
,
&
there
praeter
expectationem
he
found
Lionello
walking
:
woondring
at
this
,
hee
straight
enquires
what
newes
?
What
newes
Maister
Doctor
quoth
he
,
&
he
fell
in
a
great
laughing
;
in
faith
yesterday
I
scapt
a
●owring
:
For
syrrha
I
went
to
the
grang●
house
,
where
I
was
appointed
to
come
,
and
I
was
no
sooner
gotten
vp
the
Chamber
,
but
the
magicall
〈◊〉
hir
husband
beset
the
house
with
bils
and
staues
,
and
that
he
might
be
sure
no
seeling
nor
corner
should
shrawde
me
,
hee
set
the
house
on
fire
:
and
so
〈◊〉
it
〈◊〉
to
the
ground
,
Why
quoth
Mutio
〈◊〉
how
did
you
escape
?
alas
quoth
I
,
well
fare
a
womans
wit
,
she
conueighed
me
into
an
ould
chest
ful
of
writings
,
which
she
knew
hir
husband
durst
not
burne
,
and
so
was
I
saued
and
brought
to
Pysa
,
and
yesternight
by
hir
maide
let
home
to
my
lodging
.
This
quoth
he
,
is
the
pleasantest
iest
that
euer
I
heard
:
and
vpon
this
I
haue
a
sute
to
you
,
I
am
this
night
bidden
foorth
to
supper
,
you
shall
be
my
guest
,
onely
I
will
craue
so
much
fauour
,
as
after
supper
for
a
pleasant
sporte
,
to
make
relation
what
successe
you
haue
had
in
your
loues
:
for
that
I
will
not
sticke
quoth
he
,
and
so
he
caried
Lionello
to
his
mother
in
lawes
house
with
him
,
and
discouered
to
his
wiues
brethren
〈◊〉
be
was
,
&
how
at
supper
he
would
disclose
the
whole
matter
:
for
quoth
he
,
he
knowes
not
that
I
am
Margarets
husband
:
at
this
all
the
brethren
〈◊〉
him
welcome
,
〈◊〉
so
did
the
mother
to
,
&
Margaret
she
was
kept
out
of
sight
.
Supper
time
being
come
,
they
fell
to
their
vict●
,
&
Lionello
was
carrowst
vnto
by
Mutio
,
who
was
very
pleasant
to
draw
him
to
a
merry
humor
,
that
he
,
might
to
the
full
discourse
the
effect
&
fortunes
of
his
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
ended
,
Mutio
requested
him
to
tell
to
the
Gentlemen
,
what
had
hapned
betweene
him
&
his
mistresse
.
Lionello
with
a
smiling
countenance
,
began
to
describe
his
Mistresse
,
the
house
,
and
stréete
where
she
dwelt
,
how
he
fel
in
loue
with
hir
,
&
how
he
vsed
the
counsell
of
this
Doctor
,
who
in
all
his
affaires
was
his
secretarie
.
Margaret
heard
all
this
with
great
feare
,
&
when
he
came
at
the
last
point
,
she
caused
〈◊〉
●p
of
wine
to
be
giuēhim
by
one
of
hir
sisters
;
wherein
was
a
ring
that
he
had
giuen
Margaret
;
as
he
had
tould
how
he
es●t
burning
,
and
was
ready
to
con●e
all
for
a
troath
,
the
Gentlewoman
drunke
to
him
:
who
taking
the
cup
and
séeing
the
ring
●hauing
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
reaching
head
,
spide
the
fetch
,
and
perceiued
that
all
this
while
this
was
his
louers
husband
;
to
whom
he
〈◊〉
reuealed
these
escapes
:
at
this
drinking
the
wine
,
and
swallowing
the
ring
into
his
mouth
,
he
went
forward
.
Gentlemen
quoth
he
,
how
like
you
of
my
〈◊〉
and
my
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
▪
well
〈◊〉
the
〈◊〉
▪
tiemē
,
I
pray
you
is
it
true
▪
as
true
quoth
he
,
as
if
I
〈◊〉
be
so
simple
as
to
reueale
what
I
did
to
Margarets
husband
;
for
know
you
Gentlemen
,
that
I
knew
this
Mutio
to
be
hir
husband
whom
I
noti●ed
to
be
my
louer
,
and
for
that
he
was
generally
known
through
Pisa
to
be
a
iealious
foole
:
therfore
with
these
tales
I
brought
him
into
this
paradize
,
which
indéed
are
follies
of
mine
owne
braine
:
for
trust
me
by
the
faith
of
a
gentleman
,
I
neuer
spake
to
the
woman
,
was
〈◊〉
ner
in
hir
company
,
neither
〈◊〉
I
〈◊〉
hir
〈◊〉
I
see
her
.
At
this
they
all
fell
in
a
laughing
at
Mutio
,
who
was
〈◊〉
that
Lionello
had
in
〈◊〉
him
:
but
all
〈◊〉
well
,
they
were
made
friends
,
but
the
〈◊〉
went
so
to
his
heart
,
that
he
shortlie
after
died
,
and
Lionello
enioyed
she
Ladie
,
and
for
that
they
two
were
the
death
of
the
〈◊〉
man
,
now
are
they
plagued
in
purgatorie
,
〈◊〉
he
〈◊〉
them
〈◊〉
Nettles
.
Assoone
as
I
had
pa●d
ouer
these
two
of
Pisa
,
I
looked
about
and
saw
many
more
,
as
mad
and
pleasaunt
as
the
〈◊〉
:
but
my
time
was
come
that
I
must
to
the
●ge
to
be
censured
,
what
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
haue
my
〈◊〉
for
all
the
ma●
wanton
〈◊〉
,
〈◊〉
I
〈◊〉
when
I
was
aliue
,
faith
at
last
because
they
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
I
was
abooue
companion
,
they
appointed
that
I
should
sit
and
play
Iigs
all
●y
on
my
Taber
to
the
ghosts
without
cea●g
,
which
hath
brought
me
into
such
〈◊〉
,
that
I
now
play
far
better
then
when
I
was
aliue
:
for
proofe
thou
〈◊〉
heare
a
hornepipe
:
with
that
putting
his
pipe
to
his
〈◊〉
,
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
he
str●cks
I
started
,
and
with
that
I
wak●
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
such
concourse
of
people
through
the
〈◊〉
,
that
I
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
play
was
●ne
,
whervpon
rising
vp
,
and
〈◊〉
at
my
dreame
,
and
after
supper
tooke
my
〈◊〉
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
I
could
set
it
downe
,
but
not
halfe
so
pleasantly
〈◊〉
he
s●oake
it
,
but
howsoeuer
,
take
it
in
good
part
,
and
so
farewell
.
FINIS
.