Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre
Author: King of Navarre consort of Henry II Queen Marguerite
Editor: David Widger
Release date: April 21, 2019 [eBook #59325]
Most recently updated: April 9, 2023
Language: English
Credits: Produced by David Widger
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Tale
I. The pitiful history of a Proctor of Alençon, named St. Aignan,
and of his wife, who caused her husband to assassinate her lover, the son of the Lieutenant-General |
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Tale
II. The fate of the wife of a muleteer of Amboise, who suffered
herself to be killed by her servant rather than sacrifice her chastity |
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Tale
III. The revenge taken by the Queen of Naples, wife to King
Alfonso, for her husband’s infidelity with a gentleman’s wife |
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Tale
IV. The ill success of a Flemish gentleman who was unable to
obtain, either by persuasion or force, the love of a great Princess |
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Tale
V. How a boatwoman of Coulon, near Nyort, contrived to escape from
the vicious designs of two Grey Friars |
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Tale
VI. How the wife of an old valet of the Duke of Alençon’s
succeeded in saving her lover from her husband, who was blind of one eye |
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Tale
VII. The craft of a Parisian merchant, who saved the reputation of
the daughter by offering violence to the mother |
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Tale
VIII. The misadventure of Bornet, who, planning with a friend of
his that both should lie with a serving-woman, discovers too late that they have had to do with his own wife. |
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Tale
IX. The evil fortune of a gentleman of Dauphiné, who dies of despair because he cannot marry a damsel nobler and richer than himself. |
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Tale
X. The Spanish story of Florida, who, after withstanding the love
of a gentleman named Amadour for many years, eventually becomes a nun. |
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Tale
XI. (A). Mishap of the Lady de Roncex in the Grey Friars’
Convent at Thouars. |
| Tale XI. (B). Facetious discourse of a Friar of Touraine. |
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Tale
XII. Story of Alexander de’ Medici, Duke of Florence, whom
his cousin, Lorenzino de’ Medici, slew in order to save his sister’s honour. |
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Tale
XIII. Praiseworthy artifice of a lady to whom a sea Captain sent
a letter and diamond ring, and who, by forwarding them to the Captain’s wife as though they had been intended for her, united husband and wife once more in all affection. |
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Tale
XIV. The Lord of Bonnivet, after furthering the love entertained
by an Italian gentleman for a lady of Milan, finds means to take the other’s place and so supplant him with the lady who had formerly rejected himself. |
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Tale
XV. The troubles and evil fortune of a virtuous lady who, after
being long neglected by her husband, becomes the object of his jealousy. |
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Tale
XVI. Story of a Milanese Countess, who, after long rejecting the
love of a French gentleman, rewards him at last for his faithfulness, but not until she has put his courage to the proof. |
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Tale
XVII. The noble manner in which King Francis the First shows Count
William of Furstemberg that he knows of the plans laid by him against his life, and so compels him to do justice upon himself and to leave France. |
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Tale
XVIII. A young gentleman scholar at last wins a lady’s love,
after enduring successfully two trials that she had made of him. |
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Appendix
to Vol. II |
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Tale
XIX. The honourable love of a gentleman, who, when his sweetheart
is forbidden to speak with him, in despair becomes a monk of the Observance, while the lady, following in his footsteps, becomes a nun of St. Clara |
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Tale
XX. How the Lord of Riant is cured of his love fora beautiful
widow through surprising her in the arms of a groom |
| Prologue |
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Tale
XXI. The affecting history of Rolandine, who, debarred from marriage by her father’s greed, betrothes herself to a gentleman to whom, despite his faithlessness, she keeps her plighted word, and does not marry until after his death |
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Tale
XXII. How Sister Marie Heroet virtuously escapes the attempts of
the Prior of St. Martin in-the-Fields |
|
Tale
XXIII. The undeserved confidence which a gentleman of Perigord
places in the monks of the Order of St. Francis, causes the death of himself, his wife and their little child |
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Tale
XXIV. Concerning the unavailing love borne to the Queen of Castile
by a gentleman named Elisor, who in the end becomes a hermit |
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Tale
XXV. How a young Prince found means to conceal his intrigue with
the wife of a lawyer of Paris |
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Tale
XXVI. How the counsels of a discreet lady happily withdrew the
young Lord of Avannes from the perils of his foolish love for a lady of Pampeluna |
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Tale
XXVII. How the wife of a man who was valet to a Princess rid herself of the solicitations of one who was among the same Princess’s servants, and at the same time her husband’s guest |
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Tale
XXVIII. How a Gascon merchant, named Bernard du Ha, while sojourning at Paris, deceived a Secretary to the Queen of Navarre who had thought to obtain a pasty from him |
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Tale
XXIX. How the Priest of Carrelles, in Maine, when surprised with
the wife of an old husbandman, gets out of the difficulty by pretending to return him a winnowing fan |
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Tale
XXX. How a gentleman marries his own daughter and sister unawares
|
| Prologue |
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Tale
XXXI. Punishment of the wickedness of a Friar who sought to lie
with a gentleman’s wife. |
|
Tale
XXXII. How an ambassador of Charles VIII., moved by the repentance
of a German lady, whom her husband compelled to drink out of her lover’s skull, reconciled husband and wife together. |
|
Tale
XXXIII. The hypocrisy of a priest who, under the cloak of
sanctity, had lain with his own sister, is discovered and punished by the wisdom of the Count of Angoulême. |
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Tale
XXXIV. The terror of two Friars who believed that a butcher intended to murder them, whereas the poor man was only speaking of his Pigs. |
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Tale
XXXV. How a husband’s prudence saves his wife from the risks
she incurred while thinking to yield to merely a spiritual love. |
|
Tale
XXXVI. The story of the President of Grenoble, who saves the
honour of his house by poisoning his wife with a salad. |
| Tale XXXVII. How the Lady of Loué regained her husband’s affection. |
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Tale
XXXVIII. The kindness of a townswoman of Tours to a poor farm-woman who is mistress to her husband, makes the latter so ashamed of his faithlessness that he returns to his wife. |
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Tale
XXXIX. How the Lord of Grignaulx rid one of his houses of a pretended ghost. |
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Tale
XL. The unhappy history of the Count de Jossebelin’s sister,
who shut herself up in a hermitage because her brother caused her husband to be slain. |
| Prologue |
|
Tale
XLI. Just punishment of a Grey Friar for the unwonted penance that
he would have laid upon a maiden. |
|
Tale
XLII. The virtuous resistance made by a young woman of Touraine
causes a young Prince that is in love with her, to change his desire to respect, and to bestow her honourably in marriage. |
|
Tale
XLIII. How a little chalk-mark revealed the hypocrisy of a lady
called Jambicque, who was wont to hide the pleasures she indulged in, beneath the semblance of austerity. |
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Tale
XLIV. (A). Through telling the truth, a Grey Friar receives as
alms from the Lord of Sedan two pigs instead of one. |
|
Tale
XLIV. (B). Honourable conduct of a young citizen of Paris, who,
after suddenly enjoying his sweetheart, at last happily marries. Tale XLV. Cleverness of an upholsterer of Touraine, who, to hide that he has given the Innocents to his serving-maid, contrives to give them afterwards to his wife. |
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Tale
XLVI. (A). Wicked acts of a Grey Friar of Angoulême called De
Vale, who fails in his purpose with the wife of the Judge of the Exempts, but to whom a mother in blind confidence foolishly abandons her daughter. Tale XLVI. (B). Sermons of the Grey Friar De Vallès, at first against and afterwards on behalf of husbands that beat their wives. |
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Tale
XLVII. The undeserved jealousy of a gentleman of Le Perche towards
another gentleman, his friend, leads the latter to deceive him. |
|
Tale
XLVIII. Wicked act of a Grey Friar of Perigord, who, while a husband was dancing at his wedding, went and took his place with the bride. |
|
Tale
XLIX. Story of a foreign Countess, who, not content with having
King Charles as her lover, added to him three lords, to wit, Astillon, Durassier and Valnebon. |
|
Tale
L. Melancholy fortune of Messire John Peter, a gentleman of Cremona, who dies just when he is winning the affection of the lady he loves. |
| Appendix to Vol. IV. |
| Prologue |
| Tale LI. Cruelty of the Duke of Urbino, who, contrary to the promise he had given to the Duchess, hanged a poor lady that had consented to convey letters to his son’s sweetheart, the sister of the Abbot of Farse. |
| Tale LII. Merry trick played by the varlet of an apothecary at Alençon on the Lord de la Tirelière and the lawyer Anthony Bacheré, who, thinking to breakfast at his expense, find that they have stolen from him something very different to a loaf of sugar. |
| Tale LIII. Story of the Lady of Neufchâtel, a widow at the Court of Francis I., who, through not admitting that she has plighted her troth to the Lord des Cheriots, plays him an evil trick through the means of the Prince of Belhoste. |
| Tale LIV. Merry adventure of a serving-woman and a gentleman named Thogas, whereof his wife has no suspicion. |
| Tale LV. The widow of a merchant of Saragossa, not wishing to lose the value of a horse, the price of which her husband had ordered to be given to the poor, devises the plan of selling the horse for one ducat only, adding, however, to the bargain a cat at ninety-nine. |
| Tale LVI. Notable deception practised by an old Grey Friar of Padua, who, being charged by a widow to find a husband for her daughter, did, for the sake of getting the dowry, cause her to marry a young Grey Friar, his comrade, whose condition, however, was before long discovered. |
| Tale LVII. Singular behaviour of an English lord, who is content merely to keep and wear upon his doublet the glove of a lady whom he loves. |
| Tale LVIII. A lady at the Court of Francis I., wishing to prove that she has no commerce with a certain gentleman who loves her, gives him a pretended tryst and causes him to pass for a thief. |
| Tale LIX. Story of the same lady, who, learning that her husband is in love with her waiting-woman, contrives to surprise him and impose her own terms upon him. |
| Tale LX. A man of Paris, thinking his wife to be well and duly deceased, marries again, but at the end of fifteen years is forced to take his first wife back, although she has been living meantime with one of the chanters of Louis XII. |
| Prologue |
| Tale LXI. Great kindness of a husband, who consents to take back his wife twice over, spite of her wanton love for a Canon of Autun. |
| Tale LXII. How a lady, while telling a story as of another, let her tongue trip in such a way as to show that what she related had happened to herself. |
| Tale LXIII. How the honourable behaviour of a young lord, who feigns sickness in order to be faithful to his wife, spoils a party in which he was to have made one with the King, and in this way saves the honour of three maidens of Paris. |
| Tale LXIV. Story of a gentleman of Valencia in Spain, whom a lady drove to such despair that he became a monk, and whom afterwards she strove in vain to win back to herself. |
| Tale LXV. Merry mistake of a worthy woman, who in the church of St. John of Lyons mistakes a sleeping soldier for one of the statues on a tomb, and sets a lighted candle on his forehead. |
| Tale LXVI. How an old serving-woman, thinking to surprise a Prothonotary with a lady, finds herself insulting Anthony de Bourbon and his wife Jane d’Albret. |
| Tale LXVII. How the Sire de Robertval, granting a traitor his life at the prayers of the man’s wife, set them both down on a desert island, and how, after the husband’s death, the wife was rescued and brought back to La Rochelle. |
| Tale LXVIII. The wife of an apothecary at Pau, hearing her husband give some powder of cantharides to a woman who was godmother with himself, secretly administered to him such a dose of the same drug that he nearly died. |
| Tale LXIX. How the wife of one of the King’s Equerries surprised her husband muffled in the hood of their servant-maid, and bolting meal in her stead. |
| Tale LXX. Of the love of a Duchess of Burgundy for a gentleman who rejects her advances, for which reason she accuses him to the Duke her husband, and the latter does not believe his oaths till assured by him that he loves the Lady du Vergier. Then the Duchess, having drawn knowledge of this amour from her husband, addresses to the Lady du Vergier in public, an allusion that causes the death of both lovers; and the Duke, in despair at his own lack of discretion, stabs the Duchess himself. |
| Prologue |
| Tale LXXI. The wife of a saddler of Amboise is saved on her deathbed through a fit of anger at seeing her husband fondle a servant-maid. |
| Tale LXXII. Kindness of the Duchess of Alençon to a poor nun whom she meets at Lyons, on her way to Rome, there to confess to the Pope how a monk had wronged her, and to obtain his Holiness’s pardon. |
|
Tale
I. The pitiful history of a Proctor of Alençon, named St. Aignan,
and of his wife, who caused her husband to assassinate her lover, the son of the Lieutenant-General |
|
Tale
II. The fate of the wife of a muleteer of Amboise, who suffered
herself to be killed by her servant rather than sacrifice her chastity |
|
Tale
III. The revenge taken by the Queen of Naples, wife to King
Alfonso, for her husband’s infidelity with a gentleman’s wife |
|
Tale
IV. The ill success of a Flemish gentleman who was unable to
obtain, either by persuasion or force, the love of a great Princess |
|
Tale
V. How a boatwoman of Coulon, near Nyort, contrived to escape from
the vicious designs of two Grey Friars |
|
Tale
VI. How the wife of an old valet of the Duke of Alençon’s
succeeded in saving her lover from her husband, who was blind of one eye |
|
Tale
VII. The craft of a Parisian merchant, who saved the reputation of
the daughter by offering violence to the mother |
|
Tale
VIII. The misadventure of Bornet, who, planning with a friend of
his that both should lie with a serving-woman, discovers too late that they have had to do with his own wife. |
|
Tale
IX. The evil fortune of a gentleman of Dauphiné, who dies of despair because he cannot marry a damsel nobler and richer than himself. |
|
Tale
X. The Spanish story of Florida, who, after withstanding the love
of a gentleman named Amadour for many years, eventually becomes a nun. |
|
Tale
XI. (A). Mishap of the Lady de Roncex in the Grey Friars’
Convent at Thouars. |
| Tale XI. (B). Facetious discourse of a Friar of Touraine. |
|
Tale
XII. Story of Alexander de’ Medici, Duke of Florence, whom
his cousin, Lorenzino de’ Medici, slew in order to save his sister’s honour. |
|
Tale
XIII. Praiseworthy artifice of a lady to whom a sea Captain sent
a letter and diamond ring, and who, by forwarding them to the Captain’s wife as though they had been intended for her, united husband and wife once more in all affection. |
|
Tale
XIV. The Lord of Bonnivet, after furthering the love entertained
by an Italian gentleman for a lady of Milan, finds means to take the other’s place and so supplant him with the lady who had formerly rejected himself. |
|
Tale
XV. The troubles and evil fortune of a virtuous lady who, after
being long neglected by her husband, becomes the object of his jealousy. |
|
Tale
XVI. Story of a Milanese Countess, who, after long rejecting the
love of a French gentleman, rewards him at last for his faithfulness, but not until she has put his courage to the proof. |
|
Tale
XVII. The noble manner in which King Francis the First shows Count
William of Furstemberg that he knows of the plans laid by him against his life, and so compels him to do justice upon himself and to leave France. |
|
Tale
XVIII. A young gentleman scholar at last wins a lady’s love,
after enduring successfully two trials that she had made of him. |
|
Appendix
to Vol. II |
|
Tale
XIX. The honourable love of a gentleman, who, when his sweetheart
is forbidden to speak with him, in despair becomes a monk of the Observance, while the lady, following in his footsteps, becomes a nun of St. Clara |
|
Tale
XX. How the Lord of Riant is cured of his love fora beautiful
widow through surprising her in the arms of a groom |
| Prologue |
|
Tale
XXI. The affecting history of Rolandine, who, debarred from marriage by her father’s greed, betrothes herself to a gentleman to whom, despite his faithlessness, she keeps her plighted word, and does not marry until after his death |
|
Tale
XXII. How Sister Marie Heroet virtuously escapes the attempts of
the Prior of St. Martin in-the-Fields |
|
Tale
XXIII. The undeserved confidence which a gentleman of Perigord
places in the monks of the Order of St. Francis, causes the death of himself, his wife and their little child |
|
Tale
XXIV. Concerning the unavailing love borne to the Queen of Castile
by a gentleman named Elisor, who in the end becomes a hermit |
|
Tale
XXV. How a young Prince found means to conceal his intrigue with
the wife of a lawyer of Paris |
|
Tale
XXVI. How the counsels of a discreet lady happily withdrew the
young Lord of Avannes from the perils of his foolish love for a lady of Pampeluna |
|
Tale
XXVII. How the wife of a man who was valet to a Princess rid herself of the solicitations of one who was among the same Princess’s servants, and at the same time her husband’s guest |
|
Tale
XXVIII. How a Gascon merchant, named Bernard du Ha, while sojourning at Paris, deceived a Secretary to the Queen of Navarre who had thought to obtain a pasty from him |
|
Tale
XXIX. How the Priest of Carrelles, in Maine, when surprised with
the wife of an old husbandman, gets out of the difficulty by pretending to return him a winnowing fan |
|
Tale
XXX. How a gentleman marries his own daughter and sister unawares
|
| Prologue |
|
Tale
XXXI. Punishment of the wickedness of a Friar who sought to lie
with a gentleman’s wife. |
|
Tale
XXXII. How an ambassador of Charles VIII., moved by the repentance
of a German lady, whom her husband compelled to drink out of her lover’s skull, reconciled husband and wife together. |
|
Tale
XXXIII. The hypocrisy of a priest who, under the cloak of
sanctity, had lain with his own sister, is discovered and punished by the wisdom of the Count of Angoulême. |
|
Tale
XXXIV. The terror of two Friars who believed that a butcher intended to murder them, whereas the poor man was only speaking of his Pigs. |
|
Tale
XXXV. How a husband’s prudence saves his wife from the risks
she incurred while thinking to yield to merely a spiritual love. |
|
Tale
XXXVI. The story of the President of Grenoble, who saves the
honour of his house by poisoning his wife with a salad. |
| Tale XXXVII. How the Lady of Loué regained her husband’s affection. |
|
Tale
XXXVIII. The kindness of a townswoman of Tours to a poor farm-woman who is mistress to her husband, makes the latter so ashamed of his faithlessness that he returns to his wife. |
|
Tale
XXXIX. How the Lord of Grignaulx rid one of his houses of a pretended ghost. |
|
Tale
XL. The unhappy history of the Count de Jossebelin’s sister,
who shut herself up in a hermitage because her brother caused her husband to be slain. |
| Prologue |
|
Tale
XLI. Just punishment of a Grey Friar for the unwonted penance that
he would have laid upon a maiden. |
|
Tale
XLII. The virtuous resistance made by a young woman of Touraine
causes a young Prince that is in love with her, to change his desire to respect, and to bestow her honourably in marriage. |
|
Tale
XLIII. How a little chalk-mark revealed the hypocrisy of a lady
called Jambicque, who was wont to hide the pleasures she indulged in, beneath the semblance of austerity. |
|
Tale
XLIV. (A). Through telling the truth, a Grey Friar receives as
alms from the Lord of Sedan two pigs instead of one. |
|
Tale
XLIV. (B). Honourable conduct of a young citizen of Paris, who,
after suddenly enjoying his sweetheart, at last happily marries. Tale XLV. Cleverness of an upholsterer of Touraine, who, to hide that he has given the Innocents to his serving-maid, contrives to give them afterwards to his wife. |
|
Tale
XLVI. (A). Wicked acts of a Grey Friar of Angoulême called De
Vale, who fails in his purpose with the wife of the Judge of the Exempts, but to whom a mother in blind confidence foolishly abandons her daughter. Tale XLVI. (B). Sermons of the Grey Friar De Vallès, at first against and afterwards on behalf of husbands that beat their wives. |
|
Tale
XLVII. The undeserved jealousy of a gentleman of Le Perche towards
another gentleman, his friend, leads the latter to deceive him. |
|
Tale
XLVIII. Wicked act of a Grey Friar of Perigord, who, while a husband was dancing at his wedding, went and took his place with the bride. |
|
Tale
XLIX. Story of a foreign Countess, who, not content with having
King Charles as her lover, added to him three lords, to wit, Astillon, Durassier and Valnebon. |
|
Tale
L. Melancholy fortune of Messire John Peter, a gentleman of Cremona, who dies just when he is winning the affection of the lady he loves. |
| Appendix to Vol. IV. |
| Prologue |
| Tale LI. Cruelty of the Duke of Urbino, who, contrary to the promise he had given to the Duchess, hanged a poor lady that had consented to convey letters to his son’s sweetheart, the sister of the Abbot of Farse. |
| Tale LII. Merry trick played by the varlet of an apothecary at Alençon on the Lord de la Tirelière and the lawyer Anthony Bacheré, who, thinking to breakfast at his expense, find that they have stolen from him something very different to a loaf of sugar. |
| Tale LIII. Story of the Lady of Neufchâtel, a widow at the Court of Francis I., who, through not admitting that she has plighted her troth to the Lord des Cheriots, plays him an evil trick through the means of the Prince of Belhoste. |
| Tale LIV. Merry adventure of a serving-woman and a gentleman named Thogas, whereof his wife has no suspicion. |
| Tale LV. The widow of a merchant of Saragossa, not wishing to lose the value of a horse, the price of which her husband had ordered to be given to the poor, devises the plan of selling the horse for one ducat only, adding, however, to the bargain a cat at ninety-nine. |
| Tale LVI. Notable deception practised by an old Grey Friar of Padua, who, being charged by a widow to find a husband for her daughter, did, for the sake of getting the dowry, cause her to marry a young Grey Friar, his comrade, whose condition, however, was before long discovered. |
| Tale LVII. Singular behaviour of an English lord, who is content merely to keep and wear upon his doublet the glove of a lady whom he loves. |
| Tale LVIII. A lady at the Court of Francis I., wishing to prove that she has no commerce with a certain gentleman who loves her, gives him a pretended tryst and causes him to pass for a thief. |
| Tale LIX. Story of the same lady, who, learning that her husband is in love with her waiting-woman, contrives to surprise him and impose her own terms upon him. |
| Tale LX. A man of Paris, thinking his wife to be well and duly deceased, marries again, but at the end of fifteen years is forced to take his first wife back, although she has been living meantime with one of the chanters of Louis XII. |
| Prologue |
| Tale LXI. Great kindness of a husband, who consents to take back his wife twice over, spite of her wanton love for a Canon of Autun. |
| Tale LXII. How a lady, while telling a story as of another, let her tongue trip in such a way as to show that what she related had happened to herself. |
| Tale LXIII. How the honourable behaviour of a young lord, who feigns sickness in order to be faithful to his wife, spoils a party in which he was to have made one with the King, and in this way saves the honour of three maidens of Paris. |
| Tale LXIV. Story of a gentleman of Valencia in Spain, whom a lady drove to such despair that he became a monk, and whom afterwards she strove in vain to win back to herself. |
| Tale LXV. Merry mistake of a worthy woman, who in the church of St. John of Lyons mistakes a sleeping soldier for one of the statues on a tomb, and sets a lighted candle on his forehead. |
| Tale LXVI. How an old serving-woman, thinking to surprise a Prothonotary with a lady, finds herself insulting Anthony de Bourbon and his wife Jane d’Albret. |
| Tale LXVII. How the Sire de Robertval, granting a traitor his life at the prayers of the man’s wife, set them both down on a desert island, and how, after the husband’s death, the wife was rescued and brought back to La Rochelle. |
| Tale LXVIII. The wife of an apothecary at Pau, hearing her husband give some powder of cantharides to a woman who was godmother with himself, secretly administered to him such a dose of the same drug that he nearly died. |
| Tale LXIX. How the wife of one of the King’s Equerries surprised her husband muffled in the hood of their servant-maid, and bolting meal in her stead. |
| Tale LXX. Of the love of a Duchess of Burgundy for a gentleman who rejects her advances, for which reason she accuses him to the Duke her husband, and the latter does not believe his oaths till assured by him that he loves the Lady du Vergier. Then the Duchess, having drawn knowledge of this amour from her husband, addresses to the Lady du Vergier in public, an allusion that causes the death of both lovers; and the Duke, in despair at his own lack of discretion, stabs the Duchess himself. |
| Prologue |
| Tale LXXI. The wife of a saddler of Amboise is saved on her deathbed through a fit of anger at seeing her husband fondle a servant-maid. |
| Tale LXXII. Kindness of the Duchess of Alençon to a poor nun whom she meets at Lyons, on her way to Rome, there to confess to the Pope how a monk had wronged her, and to obtain his Holiness’s pardon. |