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 tion, let him pay her a penny as broad as her buttocks.

f a woman go about alone and a man meet her and violate her; if the man denies, let him give the oaths of fifty men, three of them under vow that they will not seek a woman, and that they will not consume flesh, and that they will never ride on horseback. If he will not deny it, let him pay to the woman her gwaddol and her dilysdod and her dirwy; and a silver rod to the king in the manner he is entitled; and if the man cannot pay, his testicles shall be taken. Three times is the sarhad of a man to be augmented, when his wife is seduced. The law of nursing during a year is a cow, and a mantle, and a shirt, and a headcloth, and a pair of shoes, and a carload of the best corn which grows upon the man's land, and a pan with feet, The worth of a vat of mead, which is paid to the king, is six score pence; and the wax is to be divided thus, the third to the king, and the second third to him who makes it, and the third [third] to him who gives the mead. Nine hand-breadths is the measure of the vat of mead when measured diagonally, that is, from the furthest bottom groove to the hither rim.