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115a.jpg the Beating of The Wicked Grey Friar

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123a.jpg the Girl Refusing The Gift of The Young Prince

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143a.jpg Jambicque Repudiating Her Lover

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163a.jpg the Lovers Returning from Their Meeting in The Garden

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177a.jpg the Man of Tours and his Serving-maid in The Snow

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195a.jpg the Young Man Beating his Wife

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203a.jpg the Gentleman Reproaching his Friend for His Jealousy

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213a.jpg the Grey Friars Caught and Punished

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219a.jpg the Countess Facing Her Lovers

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233a.jpg the Lady Killing Herself on The Death of Her Lover

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DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

FOURTH DAY.
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 Angouleme.

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 Loue 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.

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