a man.  For yf she had not she sayd she had ben cleane caste awaye. xan.  We haue as greate plentie of suche housbandes, as of white crowes.  Eulalya.  Now, but for werieng you?  I coulde tell you a thynge that chaunced a late in this same citye. xantyppa.  I haue litell to doe, and I lyke your communicacyon very well.  Eulalia.  There was a certaine gentilman he as suche sort of men do, vsed much huntyng in the cuntre, where he happened on a younge damoysell, a very pore womans child on whom he doted a man well stryken in age, and for her sake he lay often out of his owne house his excuse was hunting.  This mans wife an exceding honest woman, halfe deale suspecte the mater, tried out her husbandes falshed, on a tyme when he had taken his iourney fourth of the town vnto some other waies, she wente vnto that poore cotage and boulted out all the hoole matter, where he laye on nights, wheron he dranke, what thyng thei had to welcom him withall.  There was neither one thyng nor other, but bare walles.  This good woman returned home, and sone after came againe brynginge with her a good soft bed, and al therto belongyng and certain plate besydes that she gaue them moneye, chargynge them that if the Gentilman came agayne, they shold entreate him better not beyng knowen al this while that she was his wyfe, but fayued her to be her sister.  Not long after her husband stale thether againe, he sawe the howse otherwyse decked, and better fare then he was wounte to haue.  He asked, frome whence commeth al this goodly gere?  They sayde that an honeste matrone, a kynsewoman of hys hadde broughte it thyther and commaunded thenm that he should be well cherished when so euer he came, by and by his hart gaue him that it was hys wiues dede, whan he came home he demaunded of her yf she hadde bene there or nay, she sayd yea.  Then he asked her for what purpose she sente all that housholde stuffe thyther.  Man (said she) ye haue ben tenderly brought vp.  I perceiued that ye were but corslie handled there, me thought that it was my part, seing it was your wyll and pleasure to be there ye shoulde be better loked to.  Xantippa.  She was one of goddes fooles.  I woulde rather for a bed haue layd vnder him a bundel of nettels:  or a burden of thistels.  Eula.  But here the end her husbande perceyuyng the honeste of her great pacience neuer after laye from her, but made good cheare at home with his owne.  I am sure ye knowe Gilberte the holander.  Xan.  Very well.  Eu.  He (as it is not vnknowen maried an old wife in his florishing youth.  Xan.  Per aduenture he maried the good and notthe woman.  Eulalia.  There sayde ye well, setting lytell stoore by hys olde wife, hunted a callette, with whom he kept much companie abrode, he dined or supped litell at home.  What wouldest thou haue sayd to ye gere.  Xantip.  What woulde I a said?  I wolde haue flowen to the hores toppe and I wolde haue crowned myne husbande at hys oute goinge to her with a pysbowle, that he so embawlmed might haue gon vnto his souerayne ladie.