THIRD DAY.


Prologue


Tale XXI. The affecting history of Rolandine, who, debarred from
marriage by her father's greed, betrothes herself to a gentleman to
whom, despite his faithlessness, she keeps her plighted word, and does
not marry until after his death


Tale XXII. How Sister Marie Heroet virtuously escapes the attempts of
the Prior of St. Martin in-the-Fields


Tale XXIII. The undeserved confidence which a gentleman of Perigord
places in the monks of the Order of St. Francis, causes the death of
himself, his wife and their little child


Tale XXIV. Concerning the unavailing love borne to the Queen of Castile
by a gentleman named Elisor, who in the end becomes a hermit


Tale XXV. How a young Prince found means to conceal his intrigue with
the wife of a lawyer of Paris