She took water, and anointed his eyes, and he saw. The emperor set his crown on her head. ‘Do you be emperor. I want nothing but to stay beside you.’ The emperor clad her royally, called his army, beat the drum. ‘For there’s a new emperor.’
And she saw her husband carrying water for the Jews. ‘Come hither. Have you always been poor?’
‘No, I once was not poor, I was rich. I had an estate, and I was a great merchant.’
‘Then how did you lose your estate?’
‘I lost it over a wager. My wife played the wanton with another, and I gave up the estate, and sent her adrift on the Danube.’
Straightway she sent for the other, and they brought him. ‘How did you come by this man’s estate?’
‘Over a wager.’
‘What was your wager?’
‘That I would lie with her.’
‘Then you did so?’