DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.
SECOND DAY—Continued.
[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
THIRD DAY.
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
