One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories | Page 2

NINTH -- THE HUSBAND PANDAR TO HIS OWN
WIFE.
Of a knight of Burgundy, who was marvellously amorous of one of his
wife's waiting women, and thinking to sleep with her, slept with his wife
who was in the bed of the said tire-woman. And how he caused, by his
order, another knight, his neighbour to sleep with the said woman,
believing that it was really the tirewoman--and afterwards he was not
well pleased, albeit that the lady knew nothing, and was not aware, I

believe, that she had had to do with aught other than her own husband.
STORY THE TENTH -- THE EEL PASTIES.
Of a knight of England, who, after he was married, wished his mignon
to procuré him some pretty girls, as he did before; which the mignon
would not do, saying that one wife sufficed; but the said knight brought
him back to obedience by causing eel pasties to be always served to
him, both at dinner and at supper.
STORY THE ELEVENTH -- A SACRIFICE TO THE DEVIL.
Of a jealous rogue, who after many offerings made to divers saints to
curé him of his jealousy, offered a candle to the devil who is usually
painted under the feet of St. Michael; and of the dream that he had and
what happened to him when he awoke.
STORY THE TWELFTH -- THE CALF.
Of a Dutchman, who at all hours of the day and night ceased not to
dally with his wife in love sports; and how it chanced that he laid her
down, as they went through a wood, under a great tree in which was a
labourer who had lost his calf. And as he was enumerating the charms
of his wife, and naming all the pretty things he could see, the labourer
asked him if he could not see the calf he sought, to which the Dutchman
replied that he thought he could see a tail.
STORY THE THIRTEENTH -- THE CASTRATED CLERK.
How a lawyer's clerk in England deceived his master making him
believe that he had no testicles, by which reason he had charge over his
mistress both in the country and in the town, and enjoyed his pleasure.
STORY THE FOURTEENTH -- THE POPE-MAKER, OR THE
HOLY MAN.
Of a hermit who deceived the daughter of a poor woman, making her
believe that her daughter should have a son by him who should become

Pope; and how, when she brought forth it was a girl, and thus was the
trickery of the hermit discovered, and for that cause he had to flee from
that countery.
STORY THE FIFTEENTH -- THE CLEVER NUN.
Of a nun whom a monk wished to deceive, and how he offered to shoo
her his weapon that she might feel it, but brought with him a
companion whom he put forward in his place, and of the answer she
gave him.
STORY THE SIXTEENTH -- ON THE BLIND SIDE.
Of a knight of Picardy who went to Prussia, and, meanwhile his lady
took a lover, and was in bed with him when her husband returned; and
how by a cunning trick she got her lover out of the room without the
knight being aware of it.
STORY THE SEVENTEENTH -- THE LAWYER AND THE
BOLTING-MILL.
Of a President of Parliament, who fell in love with his chamber-maid,
and would have forced her whilst she was sifting flour, but by fair
speaking she dissuaded him, and made him shake the sieve whilst she
went unto her mistress, who came and found her husband thus, as you
will afterwards hear.
STORY THE EIGHTEENTH -- FROM BELLY TO BACK.
Of a gentleman of Burgundy who paid a chambermaid ten crowns to
sleep with her, but before he left her room, had his ten crowns back,
and made her carry him on her shoulders through the host's chamber.
And in passing by the said chamber he let wind so loudly that all was
known, as you will hear in the story which follows.
STORY THE NINETEENTH -- THE CHILD OF THE SNOW.
Of an English merchant whose wife had a child in his absence, and told

him that it was his; and how he cleverly got rid of the child--for his
wife having asserted that it was born of the snow, he declared it had
been melted by the sun.
STORY THE TWENTIETH -- THE HUSBAND AS DOCTOR.
Of a young squire of Champagne who, when he married, had never
mounted a Christian creature,--much to his wife's regret. And of the
method her mother found to instruct him, and how the said squire
suddenly wept at a great feast that was made shortly after he had
learned how to perform the carnal act--as you will hear more plainly
hereafter.
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