After many days the lady, his master’s wife, beheld and cast her eyes on Joseph, and tempted him to sin.  He refused that, and would not attend ne listen to her words, ne would not consent to so sinful a work, and said to her:  Lo! hath not my lord delivered to me all that he hath in his house? and he knoweth not what he hath, and there is nothing therein but that it is in my power and at my commandment except thee, which art his wife.  How may I do this evil and sin to my lord?  Such manner, or semblable words, he said daily to her, and the woman was the more desirous and grievous to the young man, and he always forsook and refused the sin.  And when the lady saw that she was refused, she cried and called the men of the house and accused Joseph falsely.  When the lord heard this, anon he gave faith and believed his wife, and being sore wroth, set Joseph in prison where the prisoners of the king were kept and he was there fast set in.  Our Lord God was with Joseph, and had mercy on him, and made him in the favor and grace of the chief keeper of the prison, in so much that he delivered to Joseph the keeping of all the prisoners, and what he did was done, and the chief jailer was pleased with all.  Our Lord was with him and directed all his works.

After this it fell so that two officers of the king’s trespassed unto their lord, wherefore he was wroth with them and commanded them to the prison whereas Joseph was.  That one of them was the butler, and that other the baker; and the keeper betook them to Joseph to keep, and he served them.  After a while that they had been in prison they both saw on one night a dream of which they were astoned and abashed, and when Joseph was come in to serve them, and saw them heavy, he demanded them why they were heavier than they were wont to be, which answered:  We have dreamed and there is none to interpret it to us.  Joseph said to them:  Suppose ye that God may not give me grace to interpret it?  Tell to me what ye saw in your sleep.  Then the butler told first and said:  Methought I saw a vine had three branches, and after they had flowered the grapes were ripe, and then I took the cup of Pharaoh in my hand, and took the grapes and wrang out of them wine into the cup that I held, and presented it to Pharaoh to drink.  Joseph answered:  The three branches be yet three days, after which Pharaoh shall remember thy service and shall restore thee into thy foremost office and gree, for to serve him as thou wert wont to do.  Then I pray thee to remember me when thou art at thine above, and be to me so merciful to sue unto Pharaoh that he take me out of this prison, for I was stolen out of the land of Hebrews and am innocently set here in prison.  Then the master baker saw that he had wisely interpreted the butler’s dream; he said:  Methought that I had three baskets of meat upon my head, and in that one basket that was highest methought I bare all the meat of the bakehouse and birds came and ate of it.  Joseph answered: