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70 Neue Erzählungen und Zusätze. 
Dimittitur miles, remune- 
Cuius facta 
partieione socio suo se iam non iturum ulterius 
dolens ille discessit. 
rato suo timore infinito munere. 
iuravit. 
"Tristis ille dampno possessionis suae, tristior 
vero adulterio coniugis perdicionem parat socio 
Facto autem 
inductisque 
et sociae ut adultero et adulterae. 
convivio abundantissimo vicinorum 
suorum prioribus et parentibus et affinibus se- 
clusaque post cortinam coniuge inebriatoque sub- 
dole socio quaerit ab eo, an placeat referre ad 
delectaccionem convivarum, quantam pecuniam et 
quomodo abstraxit ab ea, 
adulterium. Deceptus ille prece nimia et potu 
nimio rem refert. 
cum qua commisit 
Cumque in fine narracionis 
prae risu nimio spiritus eius suffocaretur, ut 
saepe fit, ut excrearet, cortinam sublevat et alli- 
gatam videt in suppliciis 
illam. Reversusque 
ad se fine mendacii, quiequid veri narraverat, 
fecit videri mendacium dicens: Cumque et alia 
agerem, visus (Hs. visum) sum mihi supra pon- 
tem vitreum stare. Et ecce repente tonitruo con- 
quassari videbatur. Et cum ego in amnem vio- 
Jentissimum caderem, terrore horribili sompno 
solutus sum.  Extemporali itaque versuscia rei 
gestae veritatem in falsitatem convertit fantasti- 
cam salvavitque quam fere perdiderat. Et paene 
in perdicionem misit socium suum, et perditus 
esset ille, nisi pepigisset sibi iuramento se deposi- 
turum omnem invidiam et omnem rancorem erga 
coniugem suam. 
novas adulterii 
Reconciliacione itaque facta 
constituit illa. 
enim ille ex illius consilio domum emisset a pau- 
machinas Cum 
pere domui sui socii contiguam, subterraneam 
perforat ille viam de domo in aliam habebatque 
liberum aditum, cum volebat. Cumque hoc illi 
non sufficeret, condicit ut in nupcias et in ma- 
trimonium convenirent, et articulatur in haec 
Dominus meus socius tuus est. Dic ei 
quia de patria tua venit, quam in uxorem velis 
accipere, et mos vester est et lex sarracena, ut 
nonquis coniugem nisi ex dono viri legitime acei- 
piat: vis eam de dono illius accipere, cum alium 
verba: 
she consented. Saide only hym silf that he wolde 
entre as to knowe to drawe wrappe and folde 
the clothis and also to shape and olde clothis 
and furnons to breke and so by space of tyme 
covered protect and defended the advoutrier, 
The whiche not founde sorowyng he departed, 
The knyght for his infinite dreede rewarded with 
grete mede. Of whiche particioun made with 
his felaw he now hym silf eftsoones nomore 
swore. 
Than he sorowful the hurt and damage of 
his possessioun and forsoth more sorowful the 
losse of his wif with the advowterer arraied to 
his felaw and felawesse as to the advowterer 
and advowteresse. Made forsoth an habundaunt 
and a plentivous felawship and feste, brought in 
and bad of his neighburghs and of his parentis 
and affinites, closed behynde the curteyn of the 
wif and his felaw replete and drunke, asked of 
hym if it pleased hym vnder guyle to reherce 
and tel to the delectacioun of theym at the feste 
how moche money and in what maner he with- 
drow it from hir with whom he dide thadvow- 
try. Thadvowtrer deceived bi moche prier and 
drynk reherced the thyng. And whan in thende 
of the recreacioun of the mete the spirit of hym 
to moche bolned and stopped as often is don, as 
he drow the curteyn accised and bounden sigh 
and with turmentis, ther turned to hym silf to 
thende of lesyng that sum what that he had 
told seemed to be of lesyng saieng: Whan 
and that other fested, it was seen to me to 
stonde on thentre of a brage and lo alsodainly 
the thunder seemed to be quasshed and broken, 
and whan j in al the violence with dreede fal- 
lyng of the horrible brak out of sleepe. And 
so of temporal thyng don turned the trowth in — 
to fals fantasy and saved that he had almost 
lost. And vtterly put his felawe in perdicioun 
and lost was wher that he covenaunted with an 
oth to depose al envie from his wif. With re- 
consiliacioun so made she ordeyned newe guyles 
and -wrenches of advowtrie, Whan he forsoth 
of that counsail the house fallen and broken of 
a poore man to his house a litel straite way, 
she parted vnder erth from that house into 
that other and had his free comyng and goyng 
whan that he wold. And whan this sufficed 
nat to theym, they toguyder saiden as to 
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