Owing to this she so far forgot
her honour and conscience as to fall in love with a young man, and the
affair being at last noised abroad, the husband heard of it. He could
not believe it, however, on account of the many notable tokens of love
that were shown him by his wife.
Nevertheless, he one day determined to put the matter to the test, and
to take revenge, if he were able, on the woman who had put him to such
shame. For this purpose he pretended to go away to a place a short
distance off for the space of two or three days.
As soon as he was gone, his wife sent for her lover, but he had not been
with her for half-an-hour when the husband arrived and knocked loudly at
the door. The wife well knew who it was and told her lover, who was so
greatly confounded that he would fain have been in his mother's womb,
and cursed both his mistress and the love that had brought him into such
peril. However, she bade him fear nothing, for she would devise a means
to get him away without harm or shame to him, and she told him to dress
himself as quickly as he could.
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