duetye Her father forgaue her, and promised that she
shoulde finde him a kynd and a louynge father, yf so be
that she perfourmed her promyse. xantippa. How dyd she
afterwarde? Eulalya, when she was departed from her
father she came backe into a chaumber, and there by
chaunce found her husband alone she fel on her knees to
hym and said. Man in tymes paste, I neyther knewe you
nor my selfe, from this daye froward ye shall se me
cleane chaunged, onelye pardon that is past, with that
her husbande toke her in his armes & kyssed her sayinge
she should lacke nothyng yf she woulde holde her in
that mind. xantip. Why did she continue so. Eulalya.
Euen tyll her endynge daye, nor there was none so vyle
a thynge but that she woulde laye handes on it redely
with all her herte, if her husband wolde let her, so
great loue was begon and assured betwene them and
many a daye after, shee thanked god that euer she met
with such a man. For yf she had not she sayd she had
ben cleane caste awaye. xan. We haue as greate plentie
of suche housbandes, as of white crowes. Eulalya. Now,
but for werieng you? I coulde tell you a thynge that
chaunced a late in this same citye. xantyppa. I haue
litell to doe, and I lyke your communicacyon very well.
Eulalia. There was a certaine gentilman he as suche
sort of men do, vsed much huntyng in the cuntre, where
he happened on a younge damoysell, a very pore womans
child on whom he doted a man well stryken in age, and
for her sake he lay often out of his owne house his
excuse was hunting. This mans wife an exceding
honest woman, halfe deale suspecte the mater, tried