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Shakespeare Jest-Books: A Hundred Mery Talys

by W. Carew Hazlitt

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¶ Of the Wyfe That Bad Her Husbande Ete the Candell Fyrste. LVI

¶ The husbande sayde to his wyfe thus wyse: by this candell, I dremed thys nyght that I was cockecolde. To whom she answered and sayd: husbande, by this brede, ye are none. Than sayd he: wyfe, eate the brede. She answered and sayd to her husbande: than eate you the candell: for you sware fyrste.

By this a man may se, that a womans answer is neuer to seke.

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