[57] Orig. reads _gentylman_.
[58] mocked, made a jest of. See Nares (edit. 1859) _in voce_.
+ _Of the woman that said and she lyued another yere she wolde haue a
cockoldes hatte of her owne._ xxvi.
_Of the above tale but a few words remain in the fragment._
+ _Of the gentylman that wysshed his tothe in the gentylwomans tayle._
xxvii.
+ A gentylman and gentylwoman satte to gyder talkyng, _which gentylman_
had great pain in one of his tethe, and hapnyd to say _to the
gentylwo_man thus: I wys, maystres, I haue a tothe in my hede which
_greuyth me u_ery sore: wherfore I wold it were in your tayl. She,
heryng him _say this, answe_ryed thus: in good fayth, syr, yf your tothe
were in my tayle it coulde _do it but lytle_ good; but yf there be any
thynge in my tayle that can do your tothe good, I wolde it were in your
tothe.