NOVEL V
By Fiammetta
A jealous man confesses his wife under a priest's habit, who tells him that she is visited every night by a friar; and, whilst he is watching the door, she lets her lover in at the house-top.
Cf. Thomas Twine's Schoolmaster (1576).
NOVEL VI
By Pampinea
Isabella, being in company with her gallant, called Leonetto, and being visited at the same time by one Lambertuccio, her husband returns, when she sends Lambertuccio away with a drawn sword in his hand, whilst the husband escorts Leonetto safely to his own house.
Appeared in Tarlton's News out of Purgatorie (1590), No. 7.
Consult Paris, G., Le lai de l'épervier, in Romania (1878).
NOVEL VII