liued with his Wife againe he must be a contented Cuckold said Will you heare this Take your Daughter with you and I will presently giue her that portion I receiued and take all this wrong This pleased them all so the Priest drew a Bill of diuorce betweene them and the old man deliuered backe her portion beeing glad that he was rid of his Wife His wife on the other side was glad that she had escaped that punishment which shee deserued so they all partâ—â— seeming friends I â—â—rry quoth the Fishwife of Brainford this was a wench worth talking of she deserueth as much praise as those women called Amazones who out of a braue minde cut their husbands thrâ—ates and so made themselues rulers of themselues But what praise quoth the wife of Stand on the Greene had shee deserued if she had been discouered or failed in this attempt Nothing but curses in my minde for she had giuen cause to all men to speake ill of vs women it is not the euent but the honesty of the intent that iustifies the action I thinke so too said a Fishwife of Twitnam I doe not like this foolish hardinesse and men are apt to speake ill of vs without cause therefore to make amends I will tell of a vertuous and chaste Dame one whose life may bee a mirrour for all women The description of the Fishwife of Twitnam Not old not young Not sharpe of tongue Was this same Wife She lou'd no strife Nor much would prate But lou'd her mate Yet lou'd she lap If 't were her hap To meete with those She knew from foes She 'd spend her quart With all her heart Well lou'd she Masse Her time she 'd passe In working good If neighbours stood In neede of ought She sold or bought They should it haue If they did craue This Wife mannerly Spake thus soberly Her Tale. SOmetime in Brittaine there raigned a mighty Prince called Oswald who for his iust gouernment and holy life had the name of Saint giuen him This Oswald tooke to his wife a vertuous Maiden named Beblam daughter to Kynygils King of West-Saxons by whom he had one sonne after whose birth they willingly agréed that they might the better serue their Sauiour not to touch one the other after any carnall manner Thus liued this vertuous couple vntill their deaths onely estéeming the seruice of God and the auoiding of worldly tentations for their chiefe pleasure A Hermet being enuious at the report of his holy life one day went to him asking the King how hee could liue so holy and yet liue with a Wife To whom the King answered Marriage is no hinderance to holy life for therein doe we but follow the institution of God which hee ordained for the increase of the world but further to satisfie thée that it is no hinderance to my holy life take thou this King and goe to her bidding her vse thée as she would vse my selfe The Hermet glad of this hoping to haue kinde entertainment at his Quéenes hands went merily to her deliuering her the King and told her that it was her Husbands will that she should vse him in all respects as shee would vse himselfe if hee were there To this the Quéene was willing and bid him welcome telling him he should be serued in all points as the King her Royall husband was When the time of supper was come and the Hermet expected some delicate cheere he onely was fed with bread which was serued vp in a stately manner by diuers Gentlemen that did attend him likewise when he called for drink they gaue him wholesome water to coole his hote desires no other cates got hee yet was it no worse then the Queene her selfe ate of This stately seruice and homely fare scarce pleased the Hermet yet still he hoped for better but his hopes were vaine for the cloth was taken vp and one asked him if hee pleased to goe to bed To this hee was willing hoping now to sleepe out the remembrance of his hard fare but being come to his Chamber a sodaine ioy extinguished the griefe he would haue slept out for he saw no worser woman then the Queene should be his bedfellow So quickly vndressing himselfe he went in bed to her not forget-getting in his thoughts to praise her for obeying her Husbands will where hauing lyne a while thinking of some strange things lust and the euill disposition of his minde beganne to infect his soule so that with as kinde imbrace hee besought the Queene to shew some mercy towards his hot affection This vertuous Queene seeing this Hermet basely lasciuious rung a Bell then presently came in foure women who took this Hermet and cast him in a Cisterne full of water that stood in the Chamber he being well cooled they tooke him forth placing him in the bed as they found him There hee lay shiuering with cold a good space but at length his bloud being heated hee fell to thinking with himselfe how perchance the Queene shewed her selfe thus chaste to take suspition from her women and that she might all the night after play the wanton securely His burning Lust seconding this Opinion made him once more â—enter a ducking so turning himselfe to the Queene he began with this speech Most rare beauteous admirable and vnparalelled woman I will not onely commend thée for thy beauty and greatnesse of Birth and place but also I will adore thee with more then humane worship for the extraordinarie vnderstanding which thou hast aboue others of thy sexe With what a graue and sober carriage doest thou hide thy hote affections which inwardly doe burne thee Oh it is strange therewith not onely blinding the eyes of strangers but also thy neerest attendants now I conceiue why thou commandest mee to bee hurled in the water Cisterne it was thy policy thou wonder of thy sexe to auoid suspition in thy seruants I knew this well and therfore did willingly endure the same that I might the more freely enioy thy beauty now therewith 'gan he lo clip her in his armes which shee perceiuing rung the Bell her women presently comming in tooke this Yongster ducking him twise so much as they did before so that they laid him in the bed halfe drowned and hauing done presently voided they the Chamber The Hermet being come to himselfe had a better opinion of K. Oswald his Wife for he then held them for the holyest people in England and his hote bloud being cooled he lay still that night not daring to stirre lest shee giuing the alarum his enemies would come vpon him and put their crueltie in execution The morning being come hee kindely tooke his leaue of the Quéene telling her he had sufficiently tryed the Kings seuere and holy life and would euer after giue testimonie of the same so went he to his Cell being ashamed of this his foolish attempt and neuer after would looke into other mens liues but mended his owne She hauing ended her Tale they
you are a most cunning Whore therefore rest quiet for there you shall stand till morning This sharpe answere of his kild her heart but she quickly reuiued the same with a tricke which she hoped would get her admittance which she put in execution after this manner Am I rewarded thus quoth she for my charitie toward a poore distressed woman and is this thy thankes thou giuest mee for all my care which I haue had of thy old and crazed carkasse I see it is therefore will I liue no longer but presently will make away my selfe and with my selfe thee for the world iudging thee to bee author of my death will giue thee the punishment that is due vnto a murderer At this the old man laughed bidding her proceed Which she hearing tooke vp a great stone going therewith to a Pond which was within a yards length of her house and standing at the brink said these words Oh blessed element of water it is thou which wast ordained to end my misery and to reuenge me on my wicked husband therewith hurled she in the stone which made a great noise then placed shee her selfe hard by the doore Her husband thinking shee had leaped in and considering what danger hee might come in if shee was drowned ranne hastily out of doore to helpe her which his Wife seeing stept in bolting of him forth The old man stood a long time looking with his Spectacles on the Pond but perceiuing nothing to stirre hee thought her to be drowned and with that cryed out he was vndone Long inough might he cry for no neighbours dwelt neere him at length his Wife pittied him saying Alas good man what wouldst thou haue He hearing it to be his wiues voice was glad thereof yet continuing his churlish speeches vnto her he bid her open the doore calling her dissembling Queane To all this said she nothing but at last shee tooke occasion to emptie the Pis-pot on his head and then said There is some Cuckolds Vrine to coole your tongues heat I 'le warrant thee it is right 't is of my Husbands making so prethee fellow bee gone and let me sleepe This abuse of hers made the old man to raile more then before but at last séeing he could get nothing thereby thee gaue her good words intreating her to let him in and hee would forgiue all that was past neuer letting her friends vnderstand of her night-walking She seeing him so meeke said Old man I could well afford thee shelter in my house though thou hast not deserued the same but in so doing I shall breake my oath for I haue sworne that thou shalt not come through the doore not this fiue houres now to saue my oath and doe thee pleasure in taking thee out of the cold I will open the window in the lower roome that thou mayst come in that way Her husband being glad any way to get out of the cold thanked her for that kindnes Downe came she straight and opened that window the old man glad thereof thrust in his head praying her to helpe him She now thinking it time to bee reuenged on him tooke hold of his Beard and with her other fist batterd his face and scratched him in such pitious manner that the old man thought shee would haue killed him and therfore pulling his head out of the window he all be battered the Casements with stones calling her a hundred Whores At this she laughed and bid him bee a patient Cuckold for his greatest misery was to come so going to a backe window shee espyed a Boy whom she called willing him to goe to such a ones house naming her Pew-fellow and intreat her straight to come and speake with her The Boy doing her errand her Pew-fellow came to whom shee told not without great laughing the whole story of her good hap willing her to goe to her Mother and the rest of her friends and as she could well inough without her instructions frame a complaint how that her Husband of a long time had vsed to goe on whore hunting in the night yet shee hauing no iust proofe of the same was loth to speake but now it was her hap to take him forth of the doores where she would keep him till they came to take some order that she might bee separated from him for she feared her life With this Tale ranne her Pew-fellow to her friends which dwelled not farre off to whom she told such a pitious story of the miserable life their poore kinswoman led with that knowne and proued old adulterer that her friends moued with the wrong she sustained got the Parson of the towne to goe with them to their Kinswomans house that hee might be a witnesse of her wrong When they came thither they found the old man sitting at the doore with a face more deformed with beating and scratching then euer was any Witches The Mother to this lusty Lasse séeing him sit there with such a deformed face raised her voice to a high key saying Ah thou old Knaue thou Whore monger thou decrepit Lecher Hast thou alwayes complained of my Daughter making mee and other that are her good friends not onely to reproue her but more which I speake to my griefe to hate her for her neglect of dutie toward thee when the fault was in thy selfe when thou gauest her right to others but see now it is come home by thee shee hath intrapt thee in thy snare then art come home with thy face mangled like a true Ruffian now thou art the true Picture of a brothell-house companion thou hast the Seales on thy face which those creatures called Whores doe giue thou hast villaine thou hast He wondring to see her Mother so against him of whom he hoped to be righted said Mother I confesse these seales are the seales of a Whore but of what Whore Euen of what whore thou wilt quoth she thou knaue hold thy tongue confesse not heere keepe that for the gallowes Beare witnesse good Sir Iohn and the rest of my neighbours that see how my daughter is abused for I purpose to teach this knaue how to vse his wife better and not to abuse her and then threaten her with death if she complaine come downe my child and speake for thy selfe and let the knaue touch thee if he dare The yong Wife liked this well who came downe as her Mother bid her falling at her feet intreated her with fained teares that she might be diuorced from her wicked husband or else shee said her dayes were but short for he assuredly would doe her a mischiefe Content thee Daughter said her Mother I will haue him consent to let thee goe giuing thee that portion hee had with thée or else I will sell Cow Coat house and all to goe to Law with the Knaue The old man her Husband perceiuing that they were all on her side and how that they would not heare him speake in his owne defence likewise thinking if that hee
thou at this present looke for no other thing at my hands then reward fit for so vilde a creature as a Whore is At these words she would haue skreeked out but he stopped her mouth pulling withall a rusty Dagger from his side vowing to scowre it with her bloud if shee did but offer to open her mouth She poore creature forced more with feare then with duty held her peace while hee bound her to a post hard by the dore vowing she should stand there al night to coole her hote bloud Hauing done this about ten of the clock he went to bed telling her that he meant not to sleepe but watch her if she durst once open her mouth but he was better then his word though hee held it not for he was no sooner in bed but he foll fast asleepe being wearied with riding Long had not he beene so but the old Woman came opened the dore with the key that the Sumpter-mans wife had giuen her and was going to the bed which the Sumpter-man lay vpon to call his Wife but as she passed by the poore woman that was bound to her good behauiour call'd her by her name yet very softly saying Mother Ione I am héere mother Ione pray goe no furder and speake softly for my Husband mother Ione is a bed This good old Woman went to her and finding her bound asked her the cause to whom the afflicted Wife related with still speech which is contrary to womens nature euery circumstance for she knew her Husband fast enough for three houres Is that all said the old Woman then feare not but you shal enioy your friends bed with that she vnloosed her The Sumpter-mans wife maruelled what she meant to doe saying Mother what meane you this is not the way that I must take to cléere my selfe Alas should he wake and finde me gone to morrow he will kill mee in his rage Content you said the old Wife I will bide the brunt of all and heere will I stand tyed to this post till you returne which I pray let be so soone as you can This wanton Wife praised her counsell and imbraces the same and leauing the old Woman bound as she desired in her place she went to her lusty Louer who long time had expected her to whom she related her husbands vnluckie comming home her ill vsage and the old Womans kindnesse for all which he was sorrie but could not mend onely hee promised to reward this kinde woman call'd Mother Ione so leauing that talke they fell to other The Sumpter-man who could not soundly sleepe because still he dreamed of Hornes and Cuckolds wakened not long after his wife was gone and being wakened he fell to talking after this manner Now you queane is it good gadding Is your hote bloud cooled yet with the cold ayre Will your insatiable desires be allayed with hunger and cold if they be not thou arrant Whore I will tye this thus vp not onely nine dayes but nineteene times nine dayes till thou hast lost this hote and damnable pride of thine I le doo 't Whore I will I sweare I will This good old Woman hearing him rayle thus frantickly wished with all her heart her selfe out of doores and his Wife in her old place Shee durst not speake to him for feare she should be knowne by her speech to bee another and not his Wife and hee lay still calling to her asking if her hote desires were cooled At length hee hearing her make no answere thought her to be sullen and bid her speak to him or else she should repent it yet durst not the old wife speake He hearing no speech rose vp and tooke his knife swearing hee would marke her for a Whore and with those words he ranne to her and cut her ouer the nose all this the old Woman indured quietly knowing her words would haue but increased her punishment To bed went he againe with such words as hee vsed before saying that since her bloud would not coole he would let it out Hauing lyen a while he fell asleepe leauing old Ione bleeding at nose where shee stood till three of the clocke in the morning at which time this honest Lasse the Sumpter-mans wife came home when she had quietly opened the doore she went to the old Woman asking her how shee had sped Marry quoth she as I would wish my enemies to speed ill I pray vnkinde me or I shall bleed to death The good wife was sorry to heare that she had receiued such hurt but farre gladder that it did not happen vnto her selfe so vnbinding her she stood in her place Homeward went the old Woman bethinking her selfe all the way how she might excuse that hurt to her Husband At last she had one for excuses are neuer further off women then their apron strings which was this she went home to her husband who was a Mason and went euery morning betimes to worke out of the towne him she calleth telling him it was time to goe to worke the silly man rose and being ready to goe he missed a Chisell which his wife had hid and went vp and downe groping for it in the darke praying his Wife to helpe him to looke it She made as she had sought for it but in stead of that she gaue him a sharpe knife which a Butcher had brought to grinding he catching at this suddenly as one being in haste cut all his fingers so that with anger he threw the knife to the earth cursing his Wife that gaue it him Presently vpon the fall of the knife she cryed out that shee was hurt The Mason being amazed went and lighted a Candle and returning he found his wiues nose cut The silly man perswading himselfe that hee had done it with hurling the knife intreated her for to forgiue him for he protested that hee thought her no hurt when hee did it then fetched he a Surgeon who cunningly stitched it vp that it was whole in a short time The Sumpter-man all this while did little thinke how he was beguiled who when he was awaked lighted a Candle to sée what hurt he had done his Wife in his rage he comming neere her and seeing her face whole stood in amaze not knowing what to thinke on it for he was sure that he had cut her nose His Wife séeing him stand in this maner asked him what he did ayle why he gazed so on her as though he knew her not Pardon mee Wife quoth he for this night hath a miracle beene wrought I doe see plainely that the heauens will not suffer the Innocent to suffer harme Then fetched hee his knife which was all bloudy saying Deare Wife with this knife did I giue thee this present night a wound on the face the which most miraculously is whole which is a signe thou art free and spotlesse and so will I euer hold thee His Wife said little for feare of laughing onely shee said she knew heauen would defend the
Innocent so they went to bed louingly together he vowing neuer to thinke amisse on her So had she more libertie then before the old had gold for her wound which wound was so well cured I thanke God that you can scarce see it on my nose Hereat they all laughed saying she had told a good Tale for her selfe at which she bit her lip to thinke how she was so very a foole to betray her selfe But knowing that excuses would but make her more suspected she held her tongue giuing the next leaue to speake The next that sate to her was a Fishwife of Standon the Gréene who said her Tale was pleasant but scarce honest shee taxed women with too much immodestie to salue which she would tell the aduentures of a poore Gentlewoman that was vsed vnkindly by her Husband They all liked this well and intreated her to proceede which she willingly consented vnto The description of the Fishwife of Standon the Greene. This wife was leane Shee went full cleane Her breath not strong Her body long She looked pale Yet lou'd good Ale Her teeth were rot Her tongue was not Well could she chat Of this and that Her lips were white And sharpe her sight Her cheekes were thin So was her chin And something hook'd Her nose was crook'd They would haue kist But that they wist Her mouth was let That twixt was set Twice thirtie yeeres Sha 'd past with cares And honest life And still was Wife This Wife was wise But not precise Thus gan she tell Pray marke it well Her Tale. IN the troublesome raigne of King Henry the sixt there dwelt in Waltam not farre from London a Gentleman which had to Wife a creature most beautifull so that in her time there were few found that matched her none at all that excelled her so excellent were the gifts that nature had bestowed on her In body was she not onely so rare and vnparaleld but also in her gifts of minde so that in this creature it seemed that Grace and Nature stroue who should excell each other in their gifts toward her The Gentleman her Husband thought himselfe so happy in his choise that he beleeued in choosing her he had tooke hold of that blessing which heauen proffereth euery man once in his life Long did not this opinion hold for currant for in his height of loue he began so to hate her that he sought her death the cause I will tell you Hauing businesse one day to London he tooke his leaue very kindly of his Wife and accompanied with one man he rode to London being toward night he tooke vp his Inne and to be briefe he went to supper amongst other Gentlemen Amongst other talke at table one tooke occasion to speake of women and what excellent creatures they were so long as they continued loyall to man To whom answered one saying This is truth Sir so is the Diuell good so long as he doth no harme which is meaner his goodnes and womens loyaltie will come both in one yeere but it is so farre off that none in this age shall liue to see it This Gentleman louing his Wife dearely and knowing her to be free from this vnciuill Gentlemans generall taxation of women in her behalfe said Sir you are too bitter against the sexe of women and doe ill for some ones sake that hath proued false to you to taxe the generalitie of women-kinde with lightnesse and but I would not be counted vnciuill amongst these Gentlemen I would giue you the reply that approued vntruth deserueth you know my meaning Sir construe my words as you please excuse me Gentlemen if I be vnciuill I answere in the behalfe of one who is as free from disloyaltie as is the Sunne from darknes or the fire from cold Pray Sir said the other since wee are opposite in opinions let vs rather talke like Lawyers that wee may bee quickly friends againe then like Souldiers which end their words with blowes Perhaps this woman that you answere for is chaste but yet against her will for many women are honest ' cause they haue not the meanes and opportunitie to bee dis-honest so is a Thiefe true in prison ' cause he hath nothing to steale had I but opportunitie and knew this same Saint you so adore I would pawne my life and whole estate in a short while to bring you some manifest token of her disloyaltie Sir you are yong in the knowledge of womens slights your want of experience makes you too credulous therefore be not abused This speech of his made the Gentleman more out of patience then before so that with much adoe he held himselfe from offering violence but his anger beeing a little ouer hee said Sir I doe verily beleeue that this vaine speech of yours proceedeth rather from a loose and ill manner'd minde then of any experience you haue had of womens loosenes and since you thinke your selfe so cunning in that diuellish art of corrupting womens chastitie I will lay downe heere a hundred pounds against which you shall lay fifty pounds and before these Gentlemen I promise you if that within a moneths space you bring me any token of this Gentlewomans disloyaltie for whose sake I haue spoken in the behalfe of all women I doe freely giue you leaue to inioy the same conditionally you not performing it I may enioy your money If that it be a match speake and I will acquaint you where she dwelleth and besides I bow as I am a Gentleman not to giue her notice of any such intent that is toward her Sir quoth the man your proffer is faire and I accept the same so the mony was deliuered into the Oast of the house his hands and the sitters by were witnesses so drinking together like friends they went euery man to his chamber The next day this man hauing knowledge of the place rid thither leauing the Gentleman at the Inne who being assured of his wiues chastitie made no of her account but to winne the wager but it fell out otherwise for the other vowed either by force policie or free will to get some Iewell or other toy from her which was enough to perswade the Gentleman that he was a Cuckold and win the wager he had laid This Villaine for hee deserued no better stile lay at Waltam a whole day before he came to the sight of her at last he espyed her in the fields to whom he went and kissed her a thing no modest woman can deny after his salutation he said Gentlewoman I pray pardon me if I haue beene too hold I was intreated by your Husband which is at London I riding this way to come and fée you by me he hath sent his commends to you with a kinde intreat that you would not be discontented for his long absence it being serious businesse that keepes him from your sight The Gentlewoman very modestly bade him welcome thanking him for his kindnes withall telling him that her Husband
your will though vnwilling I am to doe it yet I will performe it So went he his way toward Waltam and his Master presently rid to the Court where hee abode with King Henry who a little before was inlarged by the Earle of Warwicke and placed in the Throne againe George beeing come to Waltam did his dutie to his Mistris who wondred to see him and not her husband for whom she demanded of George he answered her that hee was at Enfield and did request her to meet him there To which shee willingly agreed and presently rode with him toward Enfield At length they being come into a by way George began to speake to her in this manner Mistris I pray you tel me what that Wife deserues who through some lewd behauiour of hers hath made her Husband to neglect his estate and meanes of life seeking by all meanes to dye that he might be free from the shame which her wickednesse hath purchased him Why George quoth shee hast thou met with some such creature Be it whomsoeuer might I be her Iudge I thinke her worthy of death How thinkest thou Faith Mistris said he I thinke so too and am so fully perswaded that her offence deserueth that punishment that I purpose to bee executioner to such a one my selfe Mistris you are this woman you haue so offended my Master you know best how your selfe that he hath left his house vowing neuer to see the same till you be dead and I am the man appointed by him to kill you therefore those words which you meane to vtter speake them presently for I cannot stay Poore Gentlewoman at the report of these vnkinde words ill deserued at her hands she looked as one dead and vttering aboundance of teares she at last spake these words And can it be that my kindnes and louing obedience hath merited no other reward at his hands then death It cannot be I know thou onely tryest me how patiently I would endure such an vniust command I 'le tell thée héere thus with body prostrate on the earth and hands lift vp to heauen I would pray for his preseruation those should be my worst words for deaths fearfull visage shewes pleasant to that soule that is innocent Why then prepare your selfe said George for by heauen I doe not rest With that shee prayed him stay saying And is if so then what should I desire to liue hauing lost his fauour and without offence whom I se dearely loued and in whose sight my happinesse did consist come let me die Yet George let mee haue so much fauour at thy hands as to commend me in these few words to him Tell him my death I willingly imbrace for I haue owed him my life yet no otherwise but by a wiues obedience euer since I call'd him Husband but that I am guilty of the least fault toward him I vtterly deny and doe at this houre of my death desire that heauen would powre down vengeance vpon me if euer I offended him in thought Intreat him that he would not speake ought that were ill on mee when I am dead for in good troth I haue deserued none Pray heauen blesse him I am prepared now strike prethée home and kill me and my griefes at once George séeing this could not withhold himselfe from shedding teares and with pitie he let fall his sword saying Mistris that I haue vsed you so roughly pray pardon me for I was commanded to by my Master who hath vowed if I let you liue to kill me But I being perswaded that you are innocent I will rather vndergoe the danger of his wrath then to staine my hands with the bloud of your cléere and spotlesse brest Yet let mee intreat you so much that you would not come in his sight lest in his rage he turne your butcher but liue in some disguise till time haue opened the cause of his mistrust and shewed you guiltlesse which I hope will not belong To this she willingly granted being loth to die causelesse and thanked him for his kindnes so parted they both hauing teares in their eyes George want home where he shewed his Masters King for the gouernment of the house till his Master and Mistris returne which he said liued a while at London ' cause the time was so troublesome and that was a place where they were more secure then in the Countrey This his fellowes beléeued and were obedient to his will amongst whom hee vsed himselfe so kindely that he had all their loues This poore Gentlewoman Mistris of the house in short time got mans apparell for her disguise so wandred she vp and downe the countrey for she could get no seruice because the time was so dangerous that no man knew whom hee might trust onely she maintained her selfe with the price of those Iewels which she had all which she sold At the last being quite out of money and hauing nothing left which she could well spare to make money of she resolued rather to starue then so much to debate her selfe to become a begger with this resolution she went to a solitary place beside Yorke where shée liued the space of two dayes on Hearbs and such things as she could there finde In this time it chanced that King Edward béeing come out of France and lying thereabout with the small forces hée had came that way with some two or thrée Noble men with an intent to discouer if any ambushes were laid to take him at an aduantage He séeing there this Gentlewoman whom he supposed to be a Boy asked her what she was what she made there in that priuat place To whom shée very wisely and modestly withall answered that she was a poore Boy whose bringing vp had bin better then her outward parts then shewed but at that time she was both friendlesse comfortlesse by reason of the late warre He being moued to sée one so well featur'd as she was to want entertained her for one of his Pages to whom she shewed her selfe so dutifull and louing that in short time shee had his loue aboue all her fellows Still followed she the fortunes of K. Edward hoping at last as not long after it did fall out to be reconciled to her husband After the battell at Barnet where K. Edward got the best she going vp down amongst the slaine men to know whether her husband which was on K. Henries side were dead or escaped happened to sée the other who had béen her ghest lying there for dead she remembring him and thinking him to be one whom her husband loued went to him finding him not dead she caused one to helpe her with him to a house there-by where opening of his brest to dresse his wounds she espied her Crucifix at sight of which her heart was ioyfull hoping by this to find him that was the originall of her disgrace for she remembring her selfe found that she had lost that Crufix euer since that morning he departed from her