er d'Aleu_.

Poggio's _Facetio ( Vir sibi cornua promovens)_.

Sacchetti's _Novelle_ (vol. ii., No. ccvi.).

Morlini's _Novelle_ (No. lxxix.).

_Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles_ (story ix.).

Malespini's _Ducento Novelle_ (part ii., No. xcvi.).

Of the foregoing, says M. de Montaiglon, Margaret could only have been
acquainted with the _Decameron_, the _Cent Nouvelles_, and Poggio's
_Facetio_, which had been translated into French by Tardix (see Nos. cv.
and ex. of that translation).

A similar story in Latin verse is also contained in a fourteenth century
MS. at Monte Cassino. See _I codici e le arti a Monte Cassino_, by D.
Andrea Caravita (vol. ii. p. 289).

Since Margaret's time stories of the same character have appeared in the
following works:--

Melander's _Jocondia_ (p. 298).

Phil. Beroalde's _Contes Latins_ (see _Poggii Imitationes_, Noel's ed.,
vol. ii. p. 245).

Guicciardini's _Hore di Recreazione_ (p. 103).

J. Bouchet's _Serees_ (No. 8; Roybet's ed., vol. ii. p. 115).

Gabrielle Chapuys' _Facetieuses Journees_ (p. 213).

La Fontaine's _Contes_ (book v., No. viii.:_ Les Quiproquo_). _Le
Passe-Temps Agreable_ (p. 27).

Moreover, a song written on the same subject will be found, says M.
de Lincy, on folio 44 of the _Premier Recueil de toutes les chansons
nouvelles_ (Troyes, Nicholas du Ruau, 1590). It is there called "The
facetious and recreative story of a certain labourer of a village near
Paris, who, thinking that he was enjoying his servant, lay with his
wife." This song was reprinted in various other collections of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

B (Tale XL (B.), Page 95.)

An anecdote in keeping with this story will be found in Brantome's
miscellaneous works (Petitot's ed., vol. viii. pp. 382-4). The author
of _Les Dames Galantes_, after alluding to his aunt Louise de
Bourdeille--who was brought up at Court by Anne of Brittany--proceeds to
say:--

"A certain Grey Friar, who habitually preached before the Queen, fell so
deeply in love with Mademoiselle de Bourdeille that he completely lost
his wits, and sometimes in his sermons, whilst speaking of the beauty
of the holy virgins of past times, he would so forget himself as to say
some words respecting the beauty of my said aunt, not to mention the
soft glances which he cast at her. And sometimes, whilst in the Queen's
room, he would take great pleasure in discoursing to her, not with words
of love however, for he would h