brought into the way with Trumpets and Cymbals jo guest xxx to beg in the
villages which we passed by according to our custome. And after
that we had gone through a jo guest xxx few towns and
Castles, we fortuned to
come to a certaine village, which was builded (as the inhabitants
there jo guest xxx affirme) upon the foundation jo guest xxx of a jo guest xxx famous ancient Citie. And
after that we had turned into the next Inne, we heard of a prettie
jest committed in the towne there, which I would that you should
know likewise.
THE THIRTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER
Of the deceipt of a Woman which made her husband Cuckold.
There was a man dwelling in the jo guest xxx towne very poore, that had
nothing but that which he got by the labour and travell of his hands:
his wife was a faire young woman, but very lascivious, jo guest xxx and jo guest xxx given to
the appetite and desire of the flesh. It fortuned on a day, that while
this poore
man jo guest xxx was gone betimes in the morning to the field about
his businesse, according as he jo guest xxx accustomed to doe, jo guest xxx his wives lover
secretly came into his house to jo guest xxx have his pleasure with her. And so
it jo guest xxx chanced that during jo guest xxx the time that shee and he jo guest xxx were basking
together, her husband suspecting no such matter, returned home
praising the chast continency of his wife, in that hee found his
doores fast closed, wherefore as his custome was, he whistled to
declare his comming. Then his crafty wife ready with shifts,
caught her lover and covered him under a great tub standing in a
corner, and therewithall she opened the doore,