About midnight
But I promise thee , thou shalt not long rejoyce at my harmes , thou shalt feele the smart of thy homicide and offence , I will see what I can doe . And therewithall she unclosed her apron , and bound all my feete together , to the end I might not help my selfe , then she tooke a great barre , which accustomed to bar the stable doore , and never ceased beating me till she was so weary that the bar fell out of her hands , whereupon she -LRB- complaining of the soone faintnesse of her armes -RRB- ran to her fire and brought a firebrand and thrust it under my taile , burning me continually , till such time as -LRB- having but one remedy -RRB- I arayed her face and eies with my durty dunge , whereby -LRB- what with the stinke thereof , and what with the filthinesse that fell in her eies -RRB- she was welnigh blinded : so I enforced the queane to leave off , otherwise I had died as Meleager did by the sticke , which his mad mother Althea cast into the fire . How a young man came and declared the miserable death of Lepolemus and his wife Charites . About midnight came a young man , which seemed to be one of the family of the good woman Charites , who sometimes endured so much misery and calamity with mee amongst the theeves , who after that hee had taken a stoole , and sate downe before the fireside , in the company of the servants , began to declare many terrible things that had happened unto the house of Charites , saying : O yee house-keepers , shepheards and cowheards , you shall understand that wee have lost our good mistris Charites miserably and by evill adventure : and to the end you may learne and know all the whole matter , I purpose to tell you the circumstances of every point , whereby such as are more learned then I -LRB- to whom fortune hath ministred more copious stile -RRB- may painte it out in paper in forme of an History . There was a young Gentleman dwelling in the next City , borne of good parentage , valiant in prowesse , and riche in substance , but very much given and adicted to whorehunting , and continuall revelling . Whereby he fell in company with Theeves , and had his hand ready to the effusion of humane blood ; his name was Thrasillus . The matter was this according to the report of every man .