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,