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One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles by Various
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STORY THE FIFTY-SEVENTH -- THE OBLIGING BROTHER.

_Of a damsel who married a shepherd, and how the marriage was arranged,
and what a gentleman, the brother of the damsel, said._


STORY THE FIFTY-EIGHTH -- SCORN FOR SCORN.

_Of two comrades who wished to make their mistresses better inclined
towards them, and so indulged in debauchery, and said, that as after
that their mistresses still scorned them, that they too must have played
at the same game--as you will hear._


STORY THE FIFTY-NINTH -- THE SICK LOVER.

_Of a lord who pretended to be sick in order that he might lie with the
servant maid, with whom his wife found him._


STORY THE SIXTIETH -- THREE VERY MINOR BROTHERS.

_Of three women of Malines, who were acquainted with three cordeliers,
and had their heads shaved, and donned the gown that they might not be
recognised, and how it was made known._


STORY THE SIXTY-FIRST -- CUCKOLDED--AND DUPED.

_Of a merchant who locked up in a bin his wife's lover, and she secretly
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