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How Isegrim and his wife Ereswine had their shoes
plucked off, for Reynard to wear to Rome.

Arter the fox had made this petition, /segrzmz
was taken, and his shoes pulled off in most
cruel and violent manner, so that all the veins
and sinews lay naked, nor durst the poor
massacred wolf either complain or resist. After
he had been thus tormented, then Dame
Eveswine his wife was used on the same
manner on her hinder feet, as her husband
was on his forefeet; which the fox seeing,
said to her in a scornful manner, ‘ Dear aunt,
how much am I bound to you that take all this
pains for my sake! Questionless, you shall bea
sharer in my pilgrimage, and take part in the
pardon I shall bring from beyond the seas by
the help of your shoes.’

Then Zveswine (though speech were trouble-
some to her) said, ‘Well, sir Reynard, you