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One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles by Various
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STORY THE FIFTY-THIRD -- THE MUDDLED MARRIAGES.

_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 the one for the other, and gave to each man the wrong wife, as you
will hear._


STORY THE FIFTY FOURTH -- THE RIGHT MOMENT.

_Of a damsel of Maubeuge who gave herself up to a waggoner, and refused
many noble lovers; and of the reply that she made to a noble knight
because he reproached her for this--as you will hear._


STORY THE FIFTY-FIFTH -- A CURÉ FOR THE PLAGUE.

_Of a girl who was ill of the plague and caused the death of three men
who lay with her, and how the fourth was saved, and she also._


STORY THE FIFTY-SIXTH -- THE WOMAN, THE PRIEST, THE SERVANT, AND THE
WOLF.

_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 committed adultery with the priest._


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