One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories | Page 5

how he renounced a young girl he had married, because he saw her lying with the family chaplain the first night after their wedding.
STORY THE FIFTY-THIRD -- THE MUDDLED MARRIAGES.
Of two men and two women who were waiting to be married at the first Mass in the early morning; and because the priest could not see well, he took the one for the other, and gave to each man the wrong wife, as you will hear.
STORY THE FIFTY FOURTH -- THE RIGHT MOMENT.
Of a damsel of Maubeuge who gave herself up to a waggoner, and refused many noble lovers; and of the reply that she made to a noble knight because he reproached her for this--as you will hear.
STORY THE FIFTY-FIFTH -- A CUR�� FOR THE PLAGUE.
Of a girl who was ill of the plague and caused the death of three men who lay with her, and how the fourth was saved, and she also.
STORY THE FIFTY-SIXTH -- THE WOMAN, THE PRIEST, THE SERVANT, AND THE WOLF.
Of a gentleman who caught, in a trap that he laid, his wife, the priest, her maid, and a wolf; and burned them all alive, because his wife committed adultery with the priest.
STORY THE FIFTY-SEVENTH -- THE OBLIGING BROTHER.
Of a damsel who married a shepherd, and how the marriage was arranged, and what a gentleman, the brother of the damsel, said.
STORY THE FIFTY-EIGHTH -- SCORN FOR SCORN.
Of two comrades who wished to make their mistresses better inclined towards them, and so indulged in debauchery, and said, that as after that their mistresses still scorned them, that they too must have played at the same game--as you will hear.
STORY THE FIFTY-NINTH -- THE SICK LOVER.
Of a lord who pretended to be sick in order that he might lie with the servant maid, with whom his wife found him.
STORY THE SIXTIETH -- THREE VERY MINOR BROTHERS.
Of three women of Malines, who were acquainted with three cordeliers, and had their heads shaved, and donned the gown that they might not be recognised, and how it was made known.
STORY THE SIXTY-FIRST -- CUCKOLDED--AND DUPED.
Of a merchant who locked up in a bin his wife's lover, and she secretly put an ass there which caused her husband to be covered with confusion.
STORY THE SIXTY-SECOND -- THE LOST RING.
Of two friends, one of whom left a diamond in the bed of his hostess, where the other found it, from which there arose a great discussion between them, which the husband of the said hostess settled in an effectual manner.
STORY THE SIXTY-THIRD -- MONTBLERU; OR THE THIEF.
Of one named Montbleru, who at a fair at Antwerp stole from his companions their shirts and handkerchiefs, which they had given to the servant-maid of their hostess to be washed; and how afterwards they pardoned the thief, and then the said Montbleru told them the whole of the story.
STORY THE SIXTY-FOURTH -- THE OVER-CUNNING CUR��.
Of a priest who would have played a joke upon a gelder named Trenche-couille, but, by the connivance of his host, was himself castrated.
STORY THE SIXTY-FIFTH -- INDISCRETION REPROVED, BUT NOT PUNISHED.
Of a woman who heard her husband say that an innkeeper at Mont St. Michel was excellent at copulating, so went there, hoping to try for herself, but her husband took means to prevent it, at which she was much displeased, as you will hear shortly.
STORY THE SIXTY-SIXTH -- THE WOMAN AT THE BATH.
Of an inn-keeper at Saint Omer who put to his son a question for which he was afterwards sorry when he heard the reply, at which his wife was much ashamed, as you will hear, later.
STORY THE SIXTY-SEVENTH -- THE WOMAN WITH THREE HUSBANDS
Of a "fur hat" of Paris, who wished to deceive a cobbler's wife, but over-reached, himself, for he married her to a barber, and thinking that he was rid of her, would have wedded another, but she prevented him, as you will hear more plainly hereafter.
STORY THE SIXTY-EIGHTH -- THE JADE DESPOILED.
Of a married man who found his wife with another man, and devised means to get from her her money, clothes, jewels, and all, down to her chemise, and then sent her away in that condition, as shall be afterwards recorded.
STORY THE SIXTY-NINTH -- THE VIRTUOUS LADY WITH TWO HUSBANDS.
Of a noble knight of Flanders, who was married to a beautiful and noble lady. He was for many years a prisoner in Turkey, during which time his good and loving wife was, by the importunities of her friends, induced to marry another knight. Soon after she had remarried, she heard that her husband had returned from Turkey, whereupon she allowed herself to die of grief, because she had contracted a fresh marriage.
STORY THE SEVENTIETH -- THE DEVIL'S HORN.
Of a noble knight of Germany, a great traveller in his time; who after he