NOVEL X

By Pampinea

Messer Alberto of Bologna modestly puts a lady to the blush, who wished to do the same by him, as she thought that he was in love with her.

Appeared in Painter's Palace of Pleasure, vol. i (1566), No. 32.


[THE SECOND DAY]

Filomena Queen

Subject.—The fortune of those who after divers adventures have at last attained a goal of unexpected felicity.

NOVEL I