Mithridanes enuious of the liberality of Nathan, and goinge aboute to kill hym, spake vnto him vnknowne, & being infourmed by himself by what meanes he might do the same he found him in a little wood accordingly as hee had tolde him, who knowinge him, was ashamed, and became his friende.
[Source.—Boccaccio, Decamerone, giorn. x., nov. 3.
Origin.—? Sadi, Orchard, story of Chatemtai and King of Yemen.
Painter.—I. ii. 118; II. ii. 96; III. ii. 190; IV. ii. 348.]
XIX. Catherine of Bologna.
Mayster Gentil of Carisendi being come from Modena, tooke a woman out of hir graue that was buried for dead, who after she was come agayne, brought forth a sonne, which mayster Gentil rendred afterwardes with the mother to mayster Nicholas Chasennemie her husband.
[Source and Origin.—Boccaccio’s Decamerone, giorn. x., nov. 4.
Parallels.—Storia di Ginevra (printed, Pisa, 1863); Bandello, Part ii., nov. 41; Marie de France, Lai d’Eliduc; Uhland, Todten von Lustnau. See Liebrecht’s discussion, Zur Volkskunde, pp. 60-5.
Painter.—I. ii. 123; II. ii. 100; III. ii. 197; IV. ii. 355.]