24                      LATIN STORIES.
 

                         XXII. De muliere et sortilega.

QUAEDAM mulier conquesta est cuidam sortilegre de
viro suo quod eam molestabat, et hoc inmerito. Dixit
el sortilega, "Faciam tibi remedium: porta vinum,
caseum, et .i. denarium, et vade ad illam silvam, et illa
ibi pone, et dicas sic,

                       "Sey wist y the brom
                        Thwat ys me for to don ;
                        Ich have the werreste bonde
                        That ys in oni londe."

Sortilega latitans in spinis sic respondit,

                       "Thyf thy bonde ys ylle,
                        Held thy tonge stille."