[The Lady Swooning in the Arms of the Gentleman of Valencia who had become a Monk]
TALE LXIV.
After a lady had for the space of five or six years made
trial of the love that a certain gentleman bore her, she
desired to have a still stronger proof of it, and reduced
him to such despair that he turned monk, on which account
she was not able to win him back again when she would fain
have done so.