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Neue Erzählungen und Zusätze 69 
Habebat autem in eodem familiscio contuber- 
nalem, summae virtutis hominem, qui virtutis simili- 
tudine illectus tum postulat, ut convenirent in 
amiseiciam. Non abnegavit ille: sanctita est iure- 
iurando amiscicia et paccio firmata communicandi 
dampna et lucra. Traduxitque ile socium exu- 
lem in eivitatem» suam. Nolens ei communicare 
uxorem suam in separatum duxit hospicium, domo 
Infestabatur autem 
sed eorum virtutem 
sua nequaquam ei ostensa. 
eadem civitas a confinibus, 
paucis diebus concludit virtus exulis, socio com- 
partitis fideliter omnibus lucris. Cum itaque 
pacem civitas ageret, aliquando solus ille per 
vicos commeans, ut fit, auro et ostro conspicuus, 
equo bellicoso sublimis, ab uxore socii sui visus 
ardentissime ab eadem adamatus est. Requisi- 
tusque, ut eadem nocte veniat ad illam, per in- 
ternuncciam pedissequam venit. Ille digrediens 
magnum pondus auri cum multis preciosis lapi- 
dibus asportavit. Cumque hoe lucrum socio com- 
partiretur, unde haberet indicavit. Animadver- 
tit ille et suam corruptam esse uxorem et suam 
pecuniam esse comminutam. Cumque nocte pro- 
xima illum rediturum ex verbis illius percepisset, 
struit insidias. 
Adest ille dominus domus, qui se longius 
simulaverat ire; improvisus adest. Sub alveo in 
quo loricam rotare armiger solebat, occulitur 
adulter. Non invenitur studiose quesitus; cum 
fatigatus rixaretur dominus, ipso(?) quod manu 
tenebat tamdiu pulsauit alveum iuxtaquem con- - 
stiterat, ut eo perforato eciam socium parum 
sauciaret. Finito postmodum iurgio et eo di- 
gresso onustior exit miles secundo quam primo. 
Compartitur lucrum: parantur iterum insidiae re- 
deunti. Occulitur post ostium camerae nec inve- 
nitur. ltem partitur lucrum: tercio parantur 
insidiae. Proicitur in archam plenam mutatoriis. 
Quam eum vellet exquirere vultu constanti et in- 
tento, consentit illa. Dicit enim se velle ingredi 
tanquam  sciencior tractandi atque revolvendi 
vestimenta. Talarique vestita astuta vestis furno- 
nae (Hs uestita instita uestis frunona) spaciositate et 
contexit et protexit adulterum. Quo non invento 
N:o 4. 
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Forsoth he had in the same felawship a 
felawe, of high vertu a man, the whiche with 
symilitude and liknes of vertu chosen asked hym 
as in friendship thei myghten come. He nat 
denyed: quoth halwed and rightfully to swere 
friendship and covenaunt affermed and stede- 
fastly to be communed and commune to wyn- 
nyng and losse. Bitooke and lad that exul his 
felaw into his citee. Forsoth willyng with hym 
to comune his wif separat brought hym to host, 
nat shewed hym his house. Forsoth the same 
citee hasted from thendis, but the vertu and 
strength of theym was but a fewe daies. That 
exul or exiled man shewid to his felaw traewly 
of the eveen partis of al the lucre and wynnyn- 
ges. Whan also that pees was made and don 
in the citee, sumtyme he allone walkyng bi the 
strietis, biholdyng gold and silver made and 
- hostriches and hors of bataile from an high, of 
the wif of his felaw was seen and most bren- 
nyngly of hir loved, and is required as that 
same nyght he come to hir bi the message of 
hir footemaide. He cam and went ageyn with 
grete weight of goid and many precious stones 
awey bare. Whan that this lucre he departed 
to his felawe, whar that he had it shewed and 
told. Advertisyng he and his wif to be corrupt 
and his money to be mynnised. (Lücke). 
To that he the lord of the house symuled 
and feyned hym silf to go fer of; vnavisede to 
be. Vnder the barel in whiche the habergeam 
was wont to be torned happened thadvoutrer 
ther was hidde, and busily sought and nat 
founde. Whan the lord was wery, he and the 
wif laughed that he hield so long and knocked 
on the barel next whom he stoode, neither it- 
parted nor opened. And the felaw a litel felt 
after that the grutche ended and he gon, with 
more cbarge left the knyght the secunde tyme 
than at the first. The luere eveene partid. 
Arraied. theym eftsones with sawtis and watches 
to go ageyn. And hid was bihynde the chambre 
dore and nat founde. And so parted the lucre. 
The thridde tyme watches and sawtis arraied; 
he was cast in an huche ful of clothis change- 
able. Whan that he wolde seeke with a con- 
stant chiere and a stidefast face to his entent, 
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