By Monseigneur de Lannoy _The sixth story is of a drunkard, who would confess to the Prior of the Augustines at the Hague, and after his confession said that he was then in a holy...
By Monsieur De Villiers. _Of a damsel who married a shepherd, and how the marriage was arranged, and what a gentleman, the brother of the damsel, said._ As you are all ready to lis...
By Michault De Changy. _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._ There formerly liv...
By Monseigneur. _Of a noble knight of Germany, a great traveller in his time; who after he had made a certain voyage, took a vow to never make the sign of the Cross, owing to the f...
By Philippe De Laon. _Of a priest of Boulogne who twice raised the body of Our Lord whilst chanting a Mass, because he believed that the Seneschal of Boulogne had come late to the...
By Monseigneur L'amant De Brucelles. _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 mistre...
By Michault De Changy. _Of a good man of Bourbonnais who went to seek the advice of a wise man of that place about an ass that he had lost, and how he believed that he miraculously...
By Philippe De Laon. _Of a monk who feigned to be very ill and in danger of death, that he might obtain the favours of a certain young woman in the manner which is described hereaf...
By Philippe De Laon. _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 he...
By Monseigneur de Crequy _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...
By Monseigneur De La Roche. _Of a village priest who found a husband for a girl with whom he was in love, and who had promised him that when she was married she would do whatever h...
By Monseigneur De Beauvoir. _Of a great lord of this kingdom and a married lady, who in order that she might be with her lover caused her husband to be shut in a clothes-chest by h...
By Monseigneur _Of a goldsmith of Paris who made a waggoner sleep with him and his wife, and how the waggoner dallied with her from behind, which the goldsmith perceived and discov...
By Monseigneur Le Duc. _Of a knight of Picardy, who lodged at an inn in the town of St. Omer, and fell in love with the hostess, with whom he was amusing himself--you know how--whe...
By Monseigneur De Commesuram. _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 the...
By Philippe De Laon. _Of a rich merchant of the city of Genoa, who married a fair damsel, who owing to the absence of her husband, sent for a wise clerk--a young, fit, and proper m...
By Monseigneur De Waurin. _Of a noble knight who was in love with a beautiful young married lady, and thought himself in her good graces, and also in those of another lady, her nei...
I. The first time I ever met Ernest Carvalho was just before the regimental dance at Newcastle. I had ridden up the Port Royal mountains that same morning from our decaying sugar e...
By The Seneschal Of Guyenne. _Of a citizen of Tours who bought a lamprey which he sent to his wife to cook in order that he might give a feast to the priest, and the said wife sent...
By Monseigneur De La Roche. _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,...
By The Editor. _Relates how a Spanish Bishop, not being able to procure fish, ate two partridges on a Friday, and how he told his servants that he had converted them by his prayers...
By Monseigneur De Villiers. _Of the Cordeliers of Ostelleria in Catalonia, who took tithe from the women of the town, and how it was known, and the punishment the lord of that plac...
By The Archivist Of Brussels. _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 th...
By Jehan Martin. _Of a married gentleman who made many long voyages, during which time his good and virtuous wife made the acquaintance of three good fellows, as you will hear; and...
By Monseigneur De La Roche. _Of a jealous man who recorded all the tricks which he could hear or learn by which wives had deceived their husbands in old times; but at last he was d...
By The Provost Of Wastennes. _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 h...
By Alardin. _Of a gentleman of Flanders, who went to reside in France, but whilst he was there his mother was very ill in Flanders; and how he often went to visit her believing tha...
By Monseigneur. _Of a noble lord who was in love with a damsel who cared for another great lord, but tried to keep it secret; and of the agreement made between the two lovers conce...
By Monsigneur De La Roche. _Of a married woman who gave rendezvous to two lovers, who came and visited her, and her husband came soon after, and of the words which passed between t...
WOLF. By Monseigneur De Villiers. _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 commit...