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quiet Woordes as hee coulde, not shewynge hymselfe to bee angry,
sayd: “In deede I haue suffred the worste Nyghte that euer I
dyd, but I knowe the same was not throughe your mistresse fault,
bicause shee hauing pitye vppon me, and as you say, that which
cannot be to Night, may be done another time, commend me then
vnto hir, and farewell.” And thus the poore Scholler stiffe for
colde, so well as hee coulde, retourned home to his house, where
for the extremitye of the tyme and lacke of sleepe beyng almost
deade, he threwe hymselfe vppon his bed, and when he awaked,
his Armes and Legges had no feeling. Wherefore he sent for
Physitions and tolde them of the colde he had taken, who
incontinently prouided for his health: and yet for al their best
and spedy remedies, they could scarce recouer his Iointes and
Sinewes, wherein they did what they could: and had it not bene
that he was yong, and the Sommer approching, it had ben to mutch
for him to haue endured. But after he was come to Healthe, and
grewe to be lusty, secrete Malyce still resting in his breaste,
hee thought vpon reuenge. And it chaunced in a lytle tyme after,
that Fortune prepared a new accident to the scholer to satisfy
his desire, bycause the young man which was beloued of the
Gentlewoman, not caring any longer for hir, fel in loue with an
other, and gaue ouer the solace and pleasure he was wont to doe
to mistresse Helena, for which despite she consumed herself in
wepings and lamentations. But hir maid hauing pity vpon hir
mistresse sorrowes, knowing no meanes to remoue the melancoly
which she conceiued for the losse of hir friend, and seing the
scholler daily passe by accordinge to his common Custome,
conceiued a foolishe beliefe that hir mistresse friend might be
brought to loue hir agayne, and wholly recouered, by some charme
or other sleight of Necromancy, to bee wrought and brought to
passe by the Scholler. Which deuise she tolde vnto hir
mistresse, and she vndiscretely (and without due consideration
that if the scholler had any knowledge in that science, he would
helpe himselfe) gaue credite to the words of hir mayde, and by
and by sayd vnto hir, that shee was able to bring it to passe,
if he would take it in hande, and therewithall promised
assuredly, that for recompense he should vse hir at his
pleasure. The mayde diligently tolde the Scholler hereof,
who very ioyfull for those newes, sayd vnto himselfe: “O God,
praysed be thy name, for now the time is come, that by thy helpe
I shall requite the iniuries done vnto me by this wicked Woman,
and be recompensed of the great loue that I bare vnto hir:” And
aunswered the mayd: “Go tell thy mistresse that for this matter
she neede to take no care, for if hir frend were in India, I can
presently force him to come hither, and aske hir forgiuenesse of
the fault he hath committed agaynst hir. And the maner, and way
how to vse hir selfe in this behalfe, I will gieue hir to
vnderstand when it shal please hir to appoinct me: and fayle not
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