NOVEL III
By Elisa
Friar Rinaldo is in bed with the wife of a neighbour. The husband finding him in the bedroom of his wife, both make him believe that they are busy about a charm to cure their child of the worms.
Against the Friars.
NOVEL IV
By Lauretta
Tofano shuts his wife one night out of doors, and she, not being able to persuade him to let her in, pretends to throw herself into a well, and drops a big stone in; he runs thither in a fright; she slips into the house, and, locking him out, abuses him well.
Appeared in Westward for Smelts, by Kind Kit of Kingston (1620), No. 3.
Consult Marcocchia, G., Una novella indiana nel Boccaccio e nel Molière (Spalatro, 1905).