TALE CONTENTS
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[ FIRST DAY. ] [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 |