Contents
[ THE SUPPOSED NARRATORS OF THE HEPTAMERON TALES. ]
List of Illustrations
[ 005a.jpg the Duke of Urbino Sending The Maiden to Prison for Carrying Messages ]
[ 015a.jpg the Gentleman and his Friend Annoyed by The Smell of Sugar ]
[ 023a.jpg the Lord Des Cheriots Flying from The Prince’s Servant ]
[ 037a.jpg the Lady Watching The Shadow Faces Kissing ]
[ 043a.jpg the Servant Selling The Horse With The Cat ]
[ 051a.jpg the Grey Friar Introducing his Comrade to The Lady and Her Daughter ]
[ 063a.jpg the English Lord Seizing The Lady’s Glove ]
[ 071a. The Gentleman Mocked by The Ladies when Returning from The False Tryst ]
[ 079a. The Lady Discovering Her Husband With The Waiting-woman ]
[ 091a. The Chanter of Blois Delivering his Mistress from The Grave ]
[ 105a. The Lady Returning to Her Lover, The Canon of Autun ]
[ 119a. The Gentleman’s Spur Catching in The Sheet ]
[ 125a. The King Asking The Young Lord to Join his Banquet ]
[ 133a. The Lady Swooning in The Arms of The Gentleman Of Valencia Who Had Become a Monk ]
[ 143a. The Old Woman Startled by The Waking of The Soldier ]
[ 149a. The Old Serving-woman Explaining Her Mistake To The Duke and Duchess of Vendôme ]
[ 155a. The Wife Reading to Her Husband on The Desert Island ]
[ 163a. The Apothecary’s Wife Giving The Dose of Cantharides To Her Husband ]
[ 169a. The Wife Discovering Her Husband in The Hood Of Their Serving-maid ]
[ 175a. The Gentleman Killing Himself on The Death of his Mistress ]
[ 219a. The Saddler’s Wife Cured by The Sight of Her Husband Caressing the Serving-maid ]
[ 225a. The Monk Conversing With The Nun While Shrouding A Dead Body ]
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.
SIXTH DAY.
Prologue
[Tale LI.] Cruelty of the Duke of Urbino, who, contrary to the promise he had given to the Duchess, hanged a poor lady that had consented to convey letters to his son’s sweetheart, the sister of the Abbot of Farse.
[Tale LII.] Merry trick played by the varlet of an apothecary at Alençon on the Lord de la Tirelière and the lawyer Anthony Bacheré, who, thinking to breakfast at his expense, find that they have stolen from him something very different to a loaf of sugar.
[Tale LIII.] Story of the Lady of Neufchâtel, a widow at the Court of Francis I., who, through not admitting that she has plighted her troth to the Lord des Cheriots, plays him an evil trick through the means of the Prince of Belhoste.