Simple Tom(continued)- Be it, perchance, Tim the baker? Or is it Dell, the miller's son? Or perhaps it be Dane, the shop keep? Come, then, the sun is high and would eat with thee and our guest, for my fields will not wait forever!", Whereupon his wife and her "guest" would emerge from some other room of the house, flushed and ruffled. Their disheveled appearance only served to cause the simple rube to remark upon the handsomeness of his bride, and to offer the visitor a drink to quench his thirst, as the sun had clearly worked upon them that day. Yes, a fool and a cuckold was poor, Simple Tom.
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