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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 as                     to tell me the whole truth, I will give you leave to make a holyday, 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 days whereupon Joan rose bedtime the next morning to brush up her husband's holyday 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 holyday clothes, pinning his laced band in prim.