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One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles by Various
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STORY THE SEVENTY-THIRD -- THE BIRD IN THE CAGE.

_Of a curé who was in love with the wife of one of his parishioners,
with whom the said curé was found by the husband of the woman, the
neighbours having given him warning--and how the curé escaped, as you
will hear._


STORY THE SEVENTY-FOURTH -- THE OBSEQUIOUS PRIEST.

_Of a priest of Boulogne who twice raised the body of Our Lord whilst
chanting a Mass, because he believed that the Seneschal of Boulogne
had come late to the Mass, and how he refused to take the Pax until the
Seneschal had done so, as you will hear hereafter._


STORY THE SEVENTY-FIFTH -- THE BAGPIPE.

_Of a hare-brained half-mad fellow who ran a great risk of being put
to death by being hanged on a gibbet in order to injure and annoy the
Bailly, justices, and other notables of the city of Troyes in Champagne
by whom he was mortally hated, as will appear more plainly hereafter._


STORY THE SEVENTY-SIXTH -- CAUGHT IN THE ACT.

_Of the chaplain to a knight of Burgundy who was enamoured of the wench
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