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Ulysses

Law. Then wotted he nought of that other land which is
called Believe-on-Me, that is the land of promise which
behoves to the king Delightful and shall be for ever where
there is no death and no birth neither wiving nor

mothering at which all shall come as many as believe on
it? Yes, Pious had told him of that land and Chaste had
pointed him to the way but the reason was that in the way
he fell in with a certain whore of an eyepleasing exterior
whose name, she said, is Bird-in-the-Hand and she
beguiled him wrongways from the true path by her
flatteries that she said to him as, Ho, you pretty man, turn
aside hither and I will show you a brave place, and she lay
at him so flatteringly that she had him in her grot which is
named Two-in-the-Bush or, by some learned, Carnal
Concupiscence.
This was it what all that company that sat there at
commons in Manse of Mothers the most lusted after and if
they met with this whore Bird-in-the-Hand (which was
within all foul plagues, monsters and a wicked devil) they
would strain the last but they would make at her and
know her. For regarding Believe-on-Me they said it was
nought else but notion and they could conceive no
thought of it for, first, Two-in-the-Bush whither she ticed
them was the very goodliest grot and in it were four

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