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108 nature beare it. And in the ende the worlde will hate uch wicked meanes, though for a whyle and at the beginning it eemeth to fauor them. That this horrible fact and michiefe was miliked the world doth know it, tetified by o many written authorities: hewing that hee which gaue himelfe ouer in praye to vice, and hee for hir wicked fact, were both buried togithers in one graue. The whole Planets aembled themelues togither to conult vpon condigne and olemne punihment: bicaue they would not uche wickednee houlde pae without memorie, tetomie, and perpetual] record of eche others deede. And all ioyntly concurring togithers in conent, agreed to frame a notable Monument, as now followeth. They turned the Louer into a Moyle, and the deade Woman continuallye rode vpon him through wild and auage countries, till laying on him with a rodde without ceaing. This holy man departed from his lodging, and the night following he came to uch another, in maner greater, or at leat the like. A yong maried wife intied by an olde Bawde fell to naughtinee, and till as opportunitie erued the yong man hir Louer came into the gardein of hir pleaures. The huband being ware of hir trade, fayned to go forth, and aw all the becknings and promies: o vpon a odain he returned into hir houe and