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When I awoke I found that she had dressed me a dish of broth of

four boiled chickens, which she brought to me together with a cup

of wine. I ate and drank and laying down the purse, would have

gone out; but she said to me, "Whither away?"; and I answered,

"Where my business calleth me;" and said she, "Thou shalt not go:

sit thee down." So I sat down and she resumed, "Hath thy love for

me so overpowered thee that thou hast wasted all thy wealth and

hast lost thine hand on my account?