The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. V

The Tales Of The Heptameron,
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Title: The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. V. (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 #17705]
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 FIFTH
LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF ENGLISH
BIBLIOPHILISTS
MDCCCXCIV
[Illustration: Frontispiece]

[Margaret, Queen of Navarre, from a crayon drawing by Clouet,
preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris]
[Illustration: Titlepage]

CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.
SIXTH DAY.

Prologue
Tale LI. Cruelty of the Duke of Urbino, who, contrary to the promise
he had given to the Duchess, hanged a poor lady that had consented to
convey letters to his son's sweetheart, the sister of the Abbot of Farse.
Tale LII. Merry trick played by the varlet of an apothecary at Alençon
on the Lord de la Tirelière and the lawyer Anthony Bacheré, who,
thinking to breakfast at his expense, find that they have stolen from him
something very different to a loaf of sugar.
Tale LIII. Story of the Lady of Neufchâtel, a widow at the Court of
Francis I., who, through not admitting that she has plighted her troth to
the Lord des Cheriots, plays him an evil trick through the means of the
Prince of Belhoste.
Tale LIV. Merry adventure of a serving-woman and a gentleman
named Thogas, whereof his wife has no suspicion.
Tale LV. The widow of a merchant of Saragossa, not wishing to lose
the value of a horse, the price of which her husband had ordered to be
given to the poor, devises the plan of selling the horse for one ducat
only, adding, however, to the bargain a cat at ninety-nine.
Tale LVI. Notable deception practised by an old Grey Friar of Padua,
who, being charged by a widow to find a husband for her daughter, did,
for the sake of getting the dowry, cause her to marry a young Grey

Friar, his comrade, whose condition, however, was before long
discovered.
Tale LVII. Singular behaviour of an English lord, who is content
merely to keep and wear upon his doublet the glove of a lady whom he
loves.
Tale LVIII. A lady at the Court of Francis I., wishing to prove that she
has no commerce with a certain gentleman who loves her, gives him a
pretended tryst and causes him to pass for a thief.
Tale LIX. Story of the same lady, who, learning that her husband is in
love with her waiting-woman, contrives to surprise him and impose her
own terms upon him.
Tale LX. A man of Paris, thinking his wife to be well and duly
deceased, marries again, but at the end of fifteen years is forced to take
his first wife back, although she has been living meantime with one of
the chanters of Louis XII.
SEVENTH DAY.
Prologue
Tale LXI. Great kindness of a husband, who consents to take back his
wife twice over, spite of her wanton love for a Canon of Autun.
Tale LXII. How a lady, while telling a story as of another, let her
tongue trip in such a way as to show that what she related had
happened to herself.
Tale LXIII. How the honourable behaviour of a young lord, who feigns
sickness in order to be faithful to his wife, spoils a party in which he
was to have made one with the King, and in this way saves the honour
of three maidens of Paris.
Tale LXIV. Story of a gentleman of Valencia in Spain, whom a lady
drove to such despair that he became a monk, and whom afterwards she

strove in vain to win back to herself.
Tale LXV. Merry mistake of a worthy woman, who in the church of St.
John of Lyons mistakes a sleeping soldier for one of the statues on a
tomb, and sets a lighted candle on his forehead.
Tale LXVI. How an