Clothiers moved them in pleasant Maner, to be good to One of their Company, that did neither sit, lie, nor stand. Then he must needs hang, qd. the Princes. And so he doth, most excellent Princes, qd. they; and therewithall told them the whole Matter. When they heard the Storie, downe to Bosomes Inne they goe, where looking up into the Roofe, spied poore Cutbert pinned up in a Basket, and almost smoaked to Death, who although hee were greatly ashamed, yet most pitifully desired that they would get him Release. What is his Trespasse? said the Prince. Nothing, if it shall like your Grace, qd. he, but looking for a Cheese: But hee could not find it without my Wife, said the Good-man: the Villaine had lately dined with Mutton, and could not digest his Meate without Cheese, for which cause I have made him to fast these twenty Houres, to the end that he may have a better Stomacke to eate his Dinner, than to use Dalliance. Let me intreate you, quoth the Prince, to release him: and if ever hereafter you catch him in the Corne, clappe him in the Pownd. Your Grace shall request or command any Thing at my Hand, said the old Man: and so Cutbert was let downe unbound, but when he was loose, he vowed never to come come within that House more. And it is said, the old Man Bosome ordained, that in Remembrance of this Deed, every Yeere once all such as came thither to ask for Cheeses, should be so served: which Thing it to this Day kept. How Simons Wife of Southampton, being wholly bent to Pride and Pleasure, requested her Husband to see London, which being granted, how she got Good-wife Sutton of Salisbury to goe with her, who tooke Crab to go along with them, and how he prophecied of many Things. CHAPTER VI. How Simons Wife of Southampton, being wholly bent to Pride and Pleasure, requested her Husband to see London, which being granted, how she got Good-wife Sutton of Salisbury to goe with her, who tooke Crab to go along with them, and how he prophecied of many Things. TH HE Clothiers being all come from London, Suttons Wife of South-hampton, who was with her Husband very mery and pleasant, brake her Mind unto him in this Sort: Good Lord, Husband, will you never be so kind as to let me goe to London with you? shall I be pend up in South-hampton, like a Parrat in a Cage, or a Capon in a Coope? I would request no more of you in Lieu of all my Paines, Carke and Care, but to have one Weeks Time to see that faire City: what is this Life, if it be not mixt with some Delight? and what Delight is more pleasing that to see the Fashions and Manners of unknowne Places? Therefore, |
