's death, the wife was rescued and brought
back to La Rochelle.

Tale LXVIII. The wife of an apothecary at Pau, hearing her husband give
some powder of cantharides to a woman who was godmother with himself,
secretly administered to him such a dose of the same drug that he nearly
died.

Tale LXIX. How the wife of one of the King's Equerries surprised her
husband muffled in the hood of their servant-maid, and bolting meal in
her stead.

Tale LXX. Of the love of a Duchess of Burgundy for a gentleman who
rejects her advances, for which reason she accuses him to the Duke her
husband, and the latter does not believe his oaths till assured by
him that he loves the Lady du Vergier. Then the Duchess, having drawn
knowledge of this amour from her husband, addresses to the Lady du
Vergier in public, an allusion that causes the death of both lovers; and
the Duke, in despair at his own lack of discretion, stabs the Duchess
himself.

EIGHTH DAY.

Prologue

Tale LXXI. The wife of a saddler of Amboise is saved on her deathbed
through a fit of anger at seeing her husband fondle a servant-maid.

Tale LXXII. Kindness of the Duchess of Alencon to a poor nun whom she
meets at Lyons, on her way to Rome, there to confess to the Pope how a
monk had wronged her, and to obtain his Holiness's pardon.

Appendix (The Narrators of the Heptameron)

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PAGE ENGRAVINGS CONTAINED IN VOLUME V.

Tale LI. The Duke of Urbino sending the Maiden to Prison for carrying
Messages between his Son and his Sweetheart.

LII. The Gentleman and his Friend annoyed by The Smell of that which
they Thought was Sugar.

LIII. The Lord des Cheriots flying from the Prince's Servant.

LIV. The Lady watching the Shadow Faces Kissing.

LV. The Servant selling the Horse with the Cat.

LVI. The Grey Friar introducing his Comrade to the Lady and her
Daughter.

LVII. The English Lord seizing the Lady's Glove.

LVIII. The Gentleman Mocked by the Ladies When Returning From The False
Tryst.

LIX. The Lady discovering her Husband with the Waiting-woman.

LX. The Chanter of Blois delivering his Mistress from the Grave.

LXI. The Lady returning to her Lover, the Canon of Autun.

LXII. The Gentleman's Spur catching in the Sheet.

LXIII. The King asking the Young Lord to join his Banquet.

LXIV. The Lady Swooning in the Arms of the Gentleman of Valencia who had
become a Monk.

LXV. The Old Woman startled by the Waking of the Soldier.