The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. IV

The Tales of the Heptameron,
Vol. IV

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Title: The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (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 #17704]
Language: English
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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 FOURTH
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 IV.
FOURTH DAY.
Prologue
Tale XXXI. Punishment of the wickedness of a Friar who sought to lie
with a gentleman's wife.
Tale XXXII. How an ambassador of Charles VIII., moved by the
repentance of a German lady, whom her husband compelled to drink
out of her lover's skull, reconciled husband and wife together.
Tale XXXIII. The hypocrisy of a priest who, under the cloak of sanctity,
had lain with his own sister, is discovered and punished by the wisdom
of the Count of Angoulême.
Tale XXXIV. The terror of two Friars who believed that a butcher
intended to murder them, whereas the poor man was only speaking of
his Pigs.
Tale XXXV. How a husband's prudence saves his wife from the risks
she incurred while thinking to yield to merely a spiritual love.
Tale XXXVI. The story of the President of Grenoble, who saves the
honour of his house by poisoning his wife with a salad.
Tale XXXVII. How the Lady of Loué regained her husband's affection.
Tale XXXVIII. The kindness of a townswoman of Tours to a poor

farm-woman who is mistress to her husband, makes the latter so
ashamed of his faithlessness that he returns to his wife.
Tale XXXIX. How the Lord of Grignaulx rid one of his houses of a
pretended ghost.
Tale XL. The unhappy history of the Count de Jossebelin's sister, who
shut herself up in a hermitage because her brother caused her husband
to be slain.
FIFTH DAY.
Prologue
Tale XLI. Just punishment of a Grey Friar for the unwonted penance
that he would have laid upon a maiden.
Tale XLII. The virtuous resistance made by a young woman of
Touraine causes a young Prince that is in love with her, to change his
desire to respect, and to bestow her honourably in marriage.
Tale XLIII. How a little chalk-mark revealed the hypocrisy of a lady
called Jambicque, who was wont to hide the pleasures she indulged in,
beneath the semblance of austerity.
Tale XLIV. (A). Through telling the truth, a Grey Friar receives as alms
from the Lord of Sedan two pigs instead of one.
Tale XLIV. (B). Honourable conduct of a young citizen of Paris, who,
after suddenly enjoying his sweetheart, at last happily marries.
Tale XLV. Cleverness of an upholsterer of Touraine, who, to hide that
he has given the Innocents to his serving-maid, contrives to give them
afterwards to his wife.
Tale XLVI. (A). Wicked acts of a Grey Friar of Angoulême called De
Vale, who fails in his purpose with the wife of the Judge of the
Exempts, but to whom a mother in blind confidence foolishly abandons
her daughter.

Tale XLVI. (B). Sermons of the Grey Friar De Vallès, at first against
and afterwards on behalf of husbands that beat their wives.
Tale XLVII. The undeserved jealousy of a gentleman of Le Perche
towards another gentleman, his friend, leads the latter to deceive him.
Tale XLVIII. Wicked act of a Grey Friar of Perigord, who, while a
husband was dancing at his wedding, went and took his place with the
bride.
Tale XLIX. Story of a foreign Countess, who, not content with having
King Charles as her lover, added to him three lords, to wit, Astillon,
Durassier and Valnebon.
Tale L. Melancholy fortune of Messire John Peter, a gentleman of
Cremona, who dies just when he is winning the affection of the