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[in] hac patria non habeas amicum. Qui cum me 
viderit, putabit esse suam et dubitabit. Quodsi 
revertatur domum, ut videat an ego sim, ego 
praecuntabor (sic) eum in thalamo. Ubi cum in- 
venerit me, arbitrabitur se esse deceptum et re- 
vertetur ad te. Et ego rursus praeveniam illum 
daborque tibi ab eo videntibus illis, qui astabunt. 
Et factum est ita. 
II. 
Mereatores duo Romani erant, quorum alteri 
coniux erat castissima et pulcherrima, alteri vero 
Cum aliquando de levi- 
tate muliebri disceptarent et gloriaretur ille de 
fide suae, alter vero contradiceret, pignora posu- 
erunt omnem possessionem suam: iste quia illam 
corrumperet intra quindecim dies, ille quia hae 
firmata condicione non praemoneret eam maritus. 
Sollicitata igitur omni genere linocinii, cum nulla- 
tenus conduceretur, per pedissequam muneribus 
corruptam decipitur. Habebat autem anulum sibi 
primum mariti munus super omnes possessiones 
earum, habebatque verrucam in signum palmo 
et dimidio a genu in dextro femore. Cumque ita 
per pedissequam surreptum accepisset ille anu- 
lum noticiamque notae, quam dixi, ad socium re- 
ferret tanquam certissimi adulterii signa, frauda- 
tur ille maligna suspicione ille 
possessione fruitur exulis. Divulgatur res per 
urbem; eieitur illa ut adultera; coniugis sui nepos 
comitatur illam. Venit in Alexandriam, celatoque 
sexu virilibus indumentis ad regem se conferens 
et exulatur; 
multiplici servicio in regis amiciciam se contulit 
utpote facetissima et lepidissima. 
administratrix ; 
Fit totius regni 
multiplieantur infinite — regales 
(Hs multiplieatur infinito regalis) redditus provi- 
dencia illius. Mortuo itaque Romano imperatore 
adolescenteque eius filio imperante, audita illius 
Alexandrini amministratoris sapiencia, mandatus 
N:o 4. 
bien felawshipped in weddyng and matremony and 
articulerly in thiese woordis: Mi lord is thi felaw; 
say thow to hym for whi thow camst from 
thi euntrey in wifes right and for whi that itis 
yowr maner and saracyns lawe nat as to take 
a wit but of the yift of a lawful man; wiltow 
have hir of hym and of his yift as that thow 
hast nonother friend in this cuntrey. Whiche 
whan he seeth me, shal trowe to be his and 
shal doubte. Than if that he turne hom as to 
see whether it be j, j shal meete and abide hym 
in the chamber. Shal arbiter hym silf to discei- 
ved, than he turneth ageyn to the and j eft- 
scones shal come bifore hym and so shal he yeve 
me to the to be seen of al theym that standen 
aboute; and so was it don. 
IT, 
in Rome of the 
whiche that oon had a wif, a chaste and a faire 
womman. Forsotlı that other no trusti feith had 
in no womman, 
Ther were II. marchauntis 
Whan and wherfor sumtyme 
whan and other wern disceived of wymmenis 
lightnes, he forsoth of the trust and feith of his 
wif ageynsaide that other; of the whiche the 
put in plegge al their possessioun: this that he 
shuld corrupt hir withyn .XV. daies, he for whi 
as with this condicioun stidefastly kept that the 
husbond shuld nat warne or tel his wif of this 
covenaunt. She therfor busied with al maner of 
lightnes as with nothing lad nor huyred, bi hir 
footemayde or seruaunt with yiftes corrupt she 
was disceived, Forsoth she had a ryng that is 
to of hir first husbondes yift above al posses- 
siouns most kiere. She had also a vernacle in signe 
and of (sic) an hand and an half from the kne 
vnto the right hipe. And whan so bi the foote — : 
maide or seruaunt prively had taken he that 
knowen ryng and with the knowlache that j have 
saide told and rehersed to his felaw as signes 
and tokenes of most certayne advowtrye, he bi- 
take with cursid suspeccioun exiled hym silf of 
his possessioun and vsid of exile. This thyng 
noised bi the citee, she was outcast as advow- 
teres and to the nephew or cosyn of hir hus- 
bond she was committed. Thei cam in to Ali- 
saunder and covered and hid with strength and 
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