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Here green-eyed Jealousy doth scold
Fair-Welcome for the falsehoods told3690
By Evil-Tongue against him, he
Loves to load men with calumny.
Jealousy attacks Fair-Welcome
Then on Fair-Welcome straightway fell
Wan Jealousy: “I prithee tell,”
Quoth she, “how thou dost boldly dare
To bring one here towards whom I bear
Suspicious hatred? Unto me,
It seems that thou too easily
Tak’st strangers for thy friends, henceforth
I trust no more thy faith and worth,3700
But straightway bound, within a tower,
Will hold thee prisoner ’neath my power.
Too far from thee hath wandered Shame,
Who well deserves to suffer blame
For negligence to hold thee fast;
Full many a time I’ve stood aghast,
Noting the scanty succour she
Affords her sister Chastity.
’Tis she hath suffered thee to bring
Within these precincts a loseling,3710
Whose presence doth but cast disgrace
On each and all who guard the place.”
The Lover.
Fair-Welcome all dumfounded stood:
Right willingly had he made good
