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OF ECCLESIASTICAL BLINDNESS.
TALE XLII.
OF ECCLESIASTICAL BLINDNESS.
A certain knight went to gather grapes in his vineyard. His wife, imagining that he delayed longer than he ought to have done, sent hastily for her gallant. While they were together the knight returned; for it seems, while plucking down a bunch of grapes, he had struck out an eye, and come home in great agony. The lady hearing his knock at the gate, was much perturbed, and immediately concealed her lover. The knight entering, complained of his wounded eye, and directed a bed to be prepared, that he might lie down. But the wife, fearing lest the gallant who was hidden in the hall, should be detected by her injured husband, said, "Why would you go to bed? tell me what has happened." He told her:
