whom will Longarine give her vote?"

4 "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but
they that are sick."--_St. Mark_ ii. 17. See also _St.
Luke_ v. 31.--Ed.

"I give it," she said, "to Saffredent."

"Then I hope," said Saffredent, "to prove to you that God does not
favour lovers. For although it has already been said, ladies, that vice
is common to men and women alike, yet will a subtle artifice be more
readily and adroitly devised by a woman than by a man Of this I am now
about to give you an instance."


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_TALE XXXIX_.

_The Lord of Grignaulx freed his house from a ghost which
had so tormented his wife that for the space of two years