The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. II

The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. II

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Title: The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.)
Author: Margaret, Queen Of Navarre
Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker
Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator
Release Date: February 7, 2006 [EBook #17702]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE TALES OF
THE HEPTAMERON
OF
Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Newly Translated into English from the Authentic Text
OF M. LE ROUX DE LINCY WITH
AN ESSAY UPON THE HEPTAMERON
BY
GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A.
Also the Original Seventy-three Full Page Engravings

Designed by S. FREUDENBERG
And One Hundred and Fifty Head and Tail Pieces
By DUNKER
IN FIVE VOLUMES
VOLUME THE SECOND
LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF ENGLISH BIBLIOPHILISTS
MDCCCXCIV
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[Margaret, Queen of Navarre, from a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Biblioth��que Nationale, Paris]
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
FIRST DAY--Continued.
Tale VIII. The misadventure of Bornet, who, planning with a friend of his that both should lie with a serving-woman, discovers too late that they have had to do with his own wife.
Tale IX. The evil fortune of a gentleman of Dauphin��, who dies of despair because he cannot marry a damsel nobler and richer than himself.
Tale X. The Spanish story of Florida, who, after withstanding the love of a gentleman named Amadour for many years, eventually becomes a nun.
SECOND DAY.
Prologue
Tale XI. (A). Mishap of the Lady de Roncex in the Grey Friars' Convent at Thouars.
Tale XI. (B). Facetious discourse of a Friar of Touraine.
Tale XII. Story of Alexander de' Medici, Duke of Florence, whom his cousin, Lorenzino de' Medici, slew in order to save his sister's honour.
Tale XIII. Praiseworthy artifice of a lady to whom a sea Captain sent a letter and diamond ring, and who, by forwarding them to the Captain's wife as though they had been intended for her, united husband and wife once more in all affection.
Tale XIV. The Lord of Bonnivet, after furthering the love entertained by an Italian gentleman for a lady of Milan, finds means to take the other's place and so supplant him with the lady who had formerly rejected himself.
Tale XV. The troubles and evil fortune of a virtuous lady who, after being long neglected by her husband, becomes the object of his jealousy.
Tale XVI. Story of a Milanese Countess, who, after long rejecting the love of a French gentleman, rewards him at last for his faithfulness, but not until she has put his courage to the proof.
Tale XVII. The noble manner in which King Francis the First shows Count William of Furstemberg that he knows of the plans laid by him against his life, and so compels him to do justice upon himself and to leave France.
XVIII. A young gentleman scholar at last wins a lady's love, after enduring successfully two trials that she had made of him.
Appendix to Vol. II

PAGE ENGRAVINGS CONTAINED IN VOLUME II.
Tale VIII. Bornet's Concern on discovering that his Wife is without her Ring.
Tale IX. The Dying Gentleman receiving the Embraces of his Sweetheart.
Tale X. The Countess asking an Explanation from Amadour.
Tale XI. (B). The Grey Friar telling his Tales.
Tale XII. The Gentleman killing the Duke.
Tale XIII. The Sea-captain talking to the Lady.
Tale XIV. Bonnivet and the Lady of Milan.
Tale XV. The Lady taking Oath as to her Conduct.
Tale XVI. The Gentleman discovering the Trick.
Tale XVII. The King showing his Sword.
Tale XVIII. The Student escaping the Temptation.
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[Bornet's Concern on discovering that his Wife is without her Ring]
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TALE VIII.
_A certain Bornet, less loyal to his wife than she to him, desired to lie with his maidservant, and made his enterprise known to a friend, who, hoping to share in the spoil, so aided and abetted him, that whilst the husband thought to lie with his servant he in truth lay with his wife. Unknown to the latter, he then caused his friend to participate in the pleasure which rightly belonged to himself alone, and thus made himself a cuckold without there being any guilt on the part of his wife._ (1)
In the county of Alletz (2) there lived a man named Bornet, who being married to an upright and virtuous wife, had great regard for her honour and reputation, as I believe is the case with all the husbands here present in respect to their own wives. But although he desired that she should be true to him,