One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories | Page 5

on
the backside of which was a piece of fine scarlet, and so left her before
all their friends.
STORY THE FIFTIETH -- TIT FOR TAT.
Of a father who tried to kill his son because the young man wanted to

lie with his grandmother, and the reply made by the said son.
STORY THE FIFTY-FIRST -- THE REAL FATHERS.
Of a woman who on her death-bed, in the absence of her husband,
made over her children to those to whom they belonged, and how one
of the youngest of the children informed his father.
STORY THE FIFTY-SECOND -- THE THREE REMINDERS.
Of three counsels that a father when on his deathbed gave his son, but
to which the son paid no heed. And 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 CURÉ 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 CURÉ.
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