VINCENT: This hap, hold I, little caused you to tell that tale
more boldly!
ANTHONY: No, cousin, that is true, lo. But then happed there
another: A young girl here in this town, whom a kinsman of hers
had begun to teach physic, told me that there was such a kind of
fever indeed.
VINCENT: By our Lady, uncle, save for the credence of you, the
tale would I not yet tell again upon that hap of the maid! For
though I know her now for such that I durst well believe her, it
might hap her very well at that time to lie, because she would
that you should take her for learned.
ANTHONY: Yea, but then happed there yet another hap thereon,
cousin, that a work of Galen, _"De differentiis febrium,"_ is
ready to be sold in the booksellers' shops, in which work she
showed me then the chapter where Galen saith the same.
VINCENT: Marry, uncle, as you say, that hap happed well. And that
maid had, as hap was, in that one point more learning than had both
your physicians besides--and hath, I believe, at this day in many
points more.
ANTHONY: In faith, so believe I too. She is very wise and well
learned, and very virtuous too.
But see now what age is: lo, I have been so long in my tale that I
have almost forgotten for what purpose I told it. Oh, now I
remember me: As I say, just as I myself felt my body then both hot
and cold at once, so he who is contrite and heavy for his sin
shall have cause to be both glad and sad, and shall indeed be both
twain at once.
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