One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles by Various
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swear that he would never enter a church again._
STORY THE SIXTH --THE DRUNKARD IN PARADISE. _The sixth story is of a drunkard, who would confess to the Prior of the Augustines at the Hague, and after his confession said that he was then in a holy state and would die; and believed that his head was cut off and that he was dead, and was carried away by his companions who said they were going to bury him._ STORY THE SEVENTH -- THE WAGGONER IN THE BEAR. _Of a goldsmith of Paris who made a waggoner sleep with him and his wife, and how the waggoner dallied with her from behind, which the goldsmith perceived and discovered, and of the words which he spake to the waggoner._ STORY THE EIGHTH -- TIT FOR TAT. _Of a youth of Picardy who lived at Brussels, and made his master's daughter pregnant, and for that cause left and came back to Picardy to be married. And soon after his departure the girl's mother perceived the condition of her daughter, and the girl confessed in what state she was; so her mother sent her to the Picardian to tell him that he must undo that which he had done. And how his new bride refused then to sleep with him, and of the story she told him, whereupon he immediately left her and returned to his first love, and married her._ |
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