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Rh you would give me all your Empire, I cannot heal your brother, nor any of these other, except they acknowledge openly what great evil they have done. When the Emperor heard this, he turned him towards his brother and said unto him; brother, acknowledge openly thy sin, before all these men, that thou mayest be healed of thy sickness. Then anon he began to tell how he had led his life; but he told not how he had hanged the Empress in the forest by the hair of the head most despigh fully.

When he had acknowledged all he thought fit, the Empress, replied and said, Soothly my Lord, I would gladly lay unto him my medicine, but I know right well it is in vain, for he hath nor made a full confession.

The Emperor bearing this, he turned towards his brother, and said in this wife, What evil sorrow, or other unhappy wretchedness is in thee? Seest thou cot how that thou art a soul Leper? Therefore, acknowledge thy foo truly, that thou mayest be whole, or else avoid my company for ever more