relate it, for I would rather make you laugh than speak myself at
length."


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[The Lady watching the Shadow Faces Kissing]

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_TALE LIV_.

_Thogas's wife, believing that her husband loved none but
herself, was pleased that her serving-woman should amuse
him, and laughed when in her presence he kissed the girl
before her eyes, and with her knowledge_.

Between the Pyrenees Mountains and the Alps, there dwelt a gentleman
named Thogas, (1) who had a wife and children, with a very beautiful
house, and so much wealth and pleasure at his hand, that there was
reason he should live in contentment, had it not been that he was
subject to great pain beneath the roots of the hair, in such wise that
the doctors advised him to sleep no longer with his wife. She, whose
chief thought was for her husband's life and health, readily consented,
and caused her bed to be set in another corner of the room directly