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Here begynneth a merry Ieste of a shrewde and curste Wyfe

a Wife Lapped in Morel's Skin

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[A merry Ieste of a shrewde and curste Wyfe.]

How the good man caused Morell to be flayne and the hide salted, to lay his wife therein to sleepe.

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Howe the good man did byd her Father and Mother to guest, and many of his neyghbours that they might see his wiues pacyence.

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Thus endeth the iest of Morels skin,
Where the curst wife was lapped in,
Because she was of a shrewde leere.
Thus was she serued in this maner.