now he hath one that is alwaies blubberynge and pyninge
her selfe awaye withoute anye remedie, he prayeth him
to lay to hys hande in amendinge his doughters fautes
her father answered that he had ones giuen hym his
doughter, and yf that she woulde not be rewled by
wordes (a goddes name take Stafforde lawe) she was his
owne. Then the gentylman sayd agayne, I know that I
may do but I had leuer haue her amended eyther by
youre good counsell or commaundement, then to come vnto
that extreme waies, her father promised that he would
fynde a remedye. After a dai or two, he espied time and
place when he might be alone with his doughter. Then
he loked soureli vpon his doughter, as though he had
bene horne woode with her, he began to reherse how
foule a beaste she was, how he feared many tymes that
she neuer haue bestowed her. And yet sayde he much a
doe, vnto my great coste and charg, I haue gotten the
one that moughte lye by any Ladyes syde, and she were a
quene and yet thou not perceiuying what I haue done for
the nor knowynge that thou hast suche a man whiche but
of his goodnes myghte thynke thee to euill to be stoye
in his kytchen, thou contrariest al his mind to make a
short tale he spake so sharpely to her, that she feared
that he wold haue beaten her. It is a man of asubtyll
and wylye wytte, whyche wythout a vysarde is ready to
playe anye maner of parte. Then this yonge wife what
for feare, and for trouthe of the matter, cleane
stryken oute of countenaunce, fell downe at her fathers
fete desyryng hym that he wolde forgette and forgiue
her all that was past and euer after she woulde doe her