Contents
[ A. (Tale XXXVI., Page 63.) ]
List of Illustrations
[ 007a.jpg the Wicked Friar Captured ]
[ 017a.jpg Bernage Observing the German Lady’s Strange Penance ]
[ 029a.jpg the Execution of The Wicked Priest and his Sister ]
[ 039a.jpg the Grey Friar Imploring The Butcher to Spare his Life ]
[ 049a.jpg the Lady Embracing The Supposed Friar ]
[ 063a.jpg the Clerk Entreating Forgiveness of The President ]
[ 073a.jpg the Lady of Loué Bringing Her Husband The Basin Of Water ]
[ 083a.jpg the Lady of Tours Questioning Her Husband’s Mistress ]
[ 089a.jpg the Lord of Grignaulx Catching The Pretended Ghost ]
[ 095a.jpg the Count of Jossebelin Murdering his Sister’s Husband ]
[ 115a.jpg the Beating of The Wicked Grey Friar ]
[ 123a.jpg the Girl Refusing The Gift of The Young Prince ]
[ 143a.jpg Jambicque Repudiating Her Lover ]
[ 163a.jpg the Lovers Returning from Their Meeting in The Garden ]
[ 177a.jpg the Man of Tours and his Serving-maid in The Snow ]
[ 195a.jpg the Young Man Beating his Wife ]
[ 203a.jpg the Gentleman Reproaching his Friend for His Jealousy ]
[ 213a.jpg the Grey Friars Caught and Punished ]
[ 219a.jpg the Countess Facing Her Lovers ]
[ 233a.jpg the Lady Killing Herself on The Death of Her Lover ]
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.
Prologue
[Tale XXXI.] Punishment of the wickedness of a Friar who sought to lie
with a gentleman’s wife.
[Tale XXXII.] How an ambassador of Charles VIII., moved by the repentance
of a German lady, whom her husband compelled to drink out of her lover’s
skull, reconciled husband and wife together.
[Tale XXXIII.] The hypocrisy of a priest who, under the cloak of sanctity,
had lain with his own sister, is discovered and punished by the wisdom
of the Count of Angoulême.
[Tale XXXIV.] The terror of two Friars who believed that a butcher
intended to murder them, whereas the poor man was only speaking of his
Pigs.
[Tale XXXV.] How a husband’s prudence saves his wife from the risks she
incurred while thinking to yield to merely a spiritual love.
[Tale XXXVI.] The story of the President of Grenoble, who saves the honour
of his house by poisoning his wife with a salad.
[Tale XXXVII.] How the Lady of Loué regained her husband’s affection.
[Tale XXXVIII.] The kindness of a townswoman of Tours to a poor
farm-woman who is mistress to her husband, makes the latter so ashamed
of his faithlessness that he returns to his wife.
[Tale XXXIX.] How the Lord of Grignaulx rid one of his houses of a
pretended ghost.
[Tale XL.] The unhappy history of the Count de Jossebelin’s sister, who
shut herself up in a hermitage because her brother caused her husband to
be slain.
Prologue
[Tale XLI.] Just punishment of a Grey Friar for the unwonted penance that
he would have laid upon a maiden.
[Tale XLII.] The virtuous resistance made by a young woman of Touraine
causes a young Prince that is in love with her, to change his desire to
respect, and to bestow her honourably in marriage.
[Tale XLIII.] How a little chalk-mark revealed the hypocrisy of a lady
called Jambicque, who was wont to hide the pleasures she indulged in,
beneath the semblance of austerity.
[Tale XLIV. (A).] Through telling the truth, a Grey Friar receives as alms
from the Lord of Sedan two pigs instead of one.
[Tale XLIV. (B).] Honourable conduct of a young citizen of Paris, who,
after suddenly enjoying his sweetheart, at last happily marries.
[Tale XLV.] Cleverness of an upholsterer of Touraine, who, to hide that
he has given the Innocents to his serving-maid, contrives to give them
afterwards to his wife.
[Tale XLVI. (A).] Wicked acts of a Grey Friar of Angoulême called De Vale,
who fails in his purpose with the wife of the Judge of the Exempts, but
to whom a mother in blind confidence foolishly abandons her daughter.
[Tale XLVI. (B).] Sermons of the Grey Friar De Vallès, at first against
and afterwards on behalf of husbands that beat their wives.
[Tale XLVII.] The undeserved jealousy of a gentleman of Le Perche towards
another gentleman, his friend, leads the latter to deceive him.
[Tale XLVIII.] Wicked act of a Grey Friar of Perigord, who, while a
husband was dancing at his wedding, went and took his place with the
bride.
[Tale XLIX.] Story of a foreign Countess, who, not content with having
King Charles as her lover, added to him three lords, to wit, Astillon,
Durassier and Valnebon.
[Tale L.] Melancholy fortune of Messire John Peter, a gentleman of
Cremona, who dies just when he is winning the affection of the lady he
loves.
Appendix to Vol. IV.