‘What will you give me if I contrive that you get it?’
‘I will give you a hundred florins.’
‘Get a big chest made, and a window in it, and get into it, and make a bolt inside, and I will carry you to her.’
She carried him in the chest under the wall of her house, and went to the lady. ‘I beg you, lady, to take in my box of clothes, so that they may not be stolen.’
‘Carry it into the hall.’
She called the maid, and the maid helped her to carry him into the hall.
‘I beg you, lady, to let me take it right into your house. I will come in the morning to fetch it.’
‘Well, put it in a corner.’
The old woman went off home. The lady at night took a bath, and laid the ring on the table, and washed herself. And through the little window he perceived a mole under her right breast. The lady slept all night in her bed, and [[122]]forgot the ring on the table, and put out the candle. And he let himself out, took the ring off the table, and got back into the chest, shut himself in. The old woman came next morning at daybreak, and carried her chest outside. He opened it, and came out, and took the chest, and departed. He went to meet the husband, and found him on the way.
‘Hast thou lain with my lady?’