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whole story of their acquaintance, re- peating it over and over again, that he                    was the most honest fellow that ever he met withal. Husband, quoth she, because you have been so ingenious to                    tell me the whole truth, I will give you leave to make a holiday for this once; you shall go to court, and I                    will make you as fine as I can.

So it was agreed that he should go                    to, court the next day; whereupon Joan rose betimes the next morning, to brush up her husband's holiday clothes, and made him as fine as she could. She washed and ironed the lace-band, and made his shoes shine that he might see his face in them; having done this, she made her hus- band rise and pull off his shirt. Then she washed him with warm water from head to foot, putting on him a clean shirt; afterwards she dressed him in his holiday clothes, pinning his laced band in prim.