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13 But what ſhould prove their mishap I at twelve o'clock her husband knocked at the door, and he being let in by the maid; went directly up ſtairs to their bed-side, drew the curtain-and there beheld his wife and his man Tom encirled in one another's arms, both being faſt aſleep. When he beheld them lying ſo lovingly, he was ſcarce able to contain himſelf within the bounds of reaſon, but was ready to pull them out of bed, yet pausing a while upon it, reſolved to make an example of them both and firſt of Tom.

When he had called the maid up to ſee and bear witnefs of it, he left the room, and them atleep, and between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, the next day, in order to Tom's puniſhment he had him warned before the chamberlain, which ſtartled him and his miſtreſs when they heard it; The wondered that ſhe did not know it; neither of them miſtruſting that it was for that. But the that morning he was to appear before the chamberlaine, ask her husband what Tom had done that he ſhould be brought before the chamberlaine? ſo which he replied, You ſhall know before night.