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in the other, begging her to be ⟨patient⟩ and he would never offend her more. ⟨But⟩ she gave him a frown, and bad him be gone about his business, which he immediately ⟨did⟩. So that then Margery and her gossips ⟨had⟩ the whole room to themselves, where they were till they were all as drunk as fish-women.
CHAP. II
She drags him up into the Chimney, and
hangs him a smoak-drying.
AT night when he returned to his ⟨home⟩ Margery, by the help of a nap she ⟨had⟩ taken, was a little restored to her senses again; but yet not forgetting the fault ⟨he⟩ had committed, she invented a new kind ⟨of⟩ punishment: For having a wide chimney wherein they used to dry bacon, she taking him at a disadvantage, tied him head and foot, bound him in a basket, and by the help of a rope drew him to the beam in the chimney, and left him there to take his lodgings the second night after their wedding, with small smoaky fire under him; so that in ⟨the⟩ morning he was reeked like a red-herring. But at length he caused his wife to shew ⟨him⟩ so much pity as to let him down.
