And then he gave her
the Innocents in the same way as he had given them to the maid, and
afterwards they returned to bed together.
When the good woman went to mass, her neighbour and excellent friend
failed not to be there, and, while unwilling to say anything further,
zealously begged of her to dismiss her serving-maid, who was, she said,
a very wicked and dangerous wench. This, however, the other would not
do without knowing why she thought so ill of the girl, and at last her
neighbour related how she had seen the wench that morning in the garden
with her husband.
At this the good woman fell to laughing heartily, and said--
"Eh! gossip dear, 'twas myself!"
"What, gossip? Why she wore naught but her shift, and it was only five
o'clock in the morning."
"In faith, gossip," replied the good woman, "'twas myself."
"They pelted each other with snow," the other went on, "on the breasts
and elsewhere, as familiarly as could be."
"Eh! gossip, eh!" the good woman replied, "'twas myself."
"Nay, gossip," said the other, "I saw them afterwards doing something in
the snow that to my mind is neither seemly nor right.
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