قراءة كتاب The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.)
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The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.)
from Their Meeting in The Garden
177a.jpg the Man of Tours and his Serving-maid in The Snow
195a.jpg the Young Man Beating his Wife
203a.jpg the Gentleman Reproaching his Friend for His Jealousy
213a.jpg the Grey Friars Caught and Punished
219a.jpg the Countess Facing Her Lovers
233a.jpg the Lady Killing Herself on The Death of Her Lover
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.
Prologue
Tale XXXI. Punishment of the wickedness of a Friar who sought to lie
with a gentleman's wife.
Tale XXXII. How an ambassador of Charles VIII., moved by the repentance
of a German lady, whom her husband compelled to drink out of her lover's
skull, reconciled husband and wife together.
Tale XXXIII. The hypocrisy of a priest who, under the cloak of sanctity,
had lain with his own sister, is discovered and punished by the wisdom
of the Count of Angoulême.
Tale XXXIV. The terror of two Friars who believed that a butcher
intended to murder them, whereas the poor man was only speaking of his
Pigs.
Tale XXXV. How a husband's prudence saves his wife from the risks she
incurred while thinking to yield to merely a spiritual love.
Tale XXXVI. The story of the President of Grenoble, who saves the honour
of his house by poisoning his wife with a salad.
Tale XXXVII. How the Lady of Loué regained her husband's affection.
Tale XXXVIII. The kindness of a townswoman of Tours to a poor
farm-woman who is mistress to her husband, makes the latter so ashamed
of his faithlessness that he returns to his wife.
Tale XXXIX. How the Lord of Grignaulx rid one of his houses of a
pretended ghost.
Tale XL. The unhappy history of the Count de Jossebelin's sister, who
shut herself up in a hermitage because her brother caused her husband to
be slain.