Note 4 — The Korils of Plauden.
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Guilcher’s wife uttered loud cries, reiterating that they were disgraced before the parish, that nothing now was left for them but to take up the wallet and white staff of mendicants, and go begging from door to door; that it was well worth Benead’s while to have become straight and noble in appearance only to take up the straw girdle;4 and thousands of other unreasonable sayings, after the fashion of women when they are in tribulation,—and when they are not.