enter his house by the chimney._


STORY THE FORTY-FIRST -- LOVE IN ARMS.

_Of a knight who made his wife wear a hauberk whenever he would do you
know what; and of a clerk who taught her another method which she almost
told her husband, but turned it off suddenly._


STORY THE FORTY-SECOND -- THE MARRIED PRIEST.

_Of a village clerk who being at Rome and believing that his wife was
dead became a priest, and was appointed curé of his own town, and when
he returned, the first person he met was his wife._


STORY THE FORTY-THIRD -- A BARGAIN IN HORNS.

_Of a labourer who found a man with his wife, and forwent his revenge
for a certain quantity of wheat, but his wife insisted that he should
complete the work he had begun._


STORY THE FORTY-FOURTH --THE MATCH-MAKING PRIEST.

_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 he wished, of which he reminded her on the wedding-day, and the
husband heard it, and took steps accordingly, as you will hear._