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.
FIFTH DAY.
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 Angouleme 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 Valles, 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.
THE QUEEN OF NAVARRE, Volume 5.
SIXTH DAY.
PROLOGUE.
TALE LI.
TALE LII.
TALE LIII.
TALE LIV.
TALE LV.
TALE LVI.
TALE LVII.
TALE LVIII.
TALE LIX.
TALE LX.
SEVENTH DAY.
PROLOGUE.
TALE LXI.
TALE LXII.
TALE LXIII.
TALE LXIV.
TALE LXV.
TALE LXVI.
TALE LXVII.
TALE LXVIII.
TALE LXIX.
TALE LXX.
EIGHTH DAY.
PROLOGUE.
TALE LXXI.
TALE LXXII.
APPENDIX.
THE SUPPOSED NARRATORS OF THE HEPTAMERON TALES.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
List of Illustrations
Frontispiece
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005a.jpg the Duke of Urbino Sending The Maiden to Prison for Carrying Messages
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015a.jpg the Gentleman and his Friend Annoyed by The Smell of Sugar
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023a.jpg the Lord Des Cheriots Flying from The Prince's Servant
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037a.jpg the Lady Watching The Shadow Faces Kissing
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043a.jpg the Servant Selling The Horse With The Cat
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051a.jpg the Grey Friar Introducing his Comrade to The Lady and Her Daughter
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063a.jpg the English Lord Seizing The Lady's Glove
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071a. The Gentleman Mocked by The Ladies when Returning from The False Tryst
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079a. The Lady Discovering Her Husband With The Waiting-woman
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091a. The Chanter of Blois Delivering his Mistress from The Grave
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105a. The Lady Returning to Her Lover, The Canon of Autun
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119a. The Gentleman's Spur Catching in The Sheet
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125a. The King Asking The Young Lord to Join his Banquet
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133a. The Lady Swooning in The Arms of The Gentleman Of Valencia Who Had Become a Monk
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143a. The Old Woman Startled by The Waking of The Soldier
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149a. The Old Serving-woman Explaining Her Mistake To The Duke and Duchess of Vendome
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155a. The Wife Reading to Her Husband on The Desert Island
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163a. The Apothecary's Wife Giving The Dose of Cantharides To Her Husband
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169a. The Wife Discovering Her Husband in The Hood Of Their Serving-maid
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175a. The Gentleman Killing Himself on The Death of his Mistress
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219a. The Saddler's Wife Cured by The Sight of Her Husband Caressing the Serving-maid
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225a. The Monk Conversing With The Nun While Shrouding A Dead Body
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DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.
SIXTH DAY.
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 Alencon on the Lord de la Tireliere and the lawyer Anthony Bachere, 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 Neufchatel, 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 Cour
t 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.
SEVENTH DAY.
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.
EIGHTH DAY.
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 Alencon 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.
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