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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG

WORKS OF

ANTOINE DE LA SALLE

Compiled by David Widger

CONTENTS

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ONE HUNDRED MERRIE AND DELIGHTSOME STORIES

Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Jollity

LES CENT NOUVELLES NOUVELLES

1899

Edited by Antoine de la Salle

Illustrated by Léon Lebèque

Contents

ONE HUNDRED MERRIE AND DELIGHTSOME STORIES

DETAILED CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

##  STORY THE FIRST

THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL. [1]

##  STORY THE SECOND

THE MONK-DOCTOR.

##  STORY THE THIRD

THE SEARCH FOR THE RING. [3]

##  STORY THE FOURTH

THE ARMED CUCKOLD. [4]

##  STORY THE FIFTH

THE DUEL WITH THE BUCKLE-STRAP. [5]

##  STORY THE SIXTH

THE DRUNKARD IN PARADISE. [6]

##  STORY THE SEVENTH

THE WAGGONER IN THE BEAR.

##  STORY THE EIGHTH

TIT FOR TAT. [8]

##  STORY THE NINTH

THE HUSBAND PANDAR TO HIS OWN WIFE. [9]

##  STORY THE TENTH

THE EEL PASTIES. [10]

##  STORY THE ELEVENTH

A SACRIFICE TO THE DEVIL. [11]

##  STORY THE TWELFTH

THE CALF. [12]

##  STORY THE THIRTEENTH

THE CASTRATED CLERK. [13]

##  STORY THE FOURTEENTH

THE POPE-MAKER, OR THE HOLY MAN. [14]

##  STORY THE FIFTEENTH

THE CLEVER NUN.

##  STORY THE SIXTEENTH

ON THE BLIND SIDE. [16]

##  STORY THE SEVENTEENTH

THE LAWYER AND THE BOLTING-MILL.

##  STORY THE EIGHTEENTH

FROM BELLY TO BACK. [18]

##  STORY THE NINETEENTH

THE CHILD OF THE SNOW

##  STORY THE TWENTIETH

THE HUSBAND AS DOCTOR.

##  STORY THE TWENTY-FIRST

THE ABBESS CURED [21]

##  STORY THE TWENTY-SECOND

THE CHILD WITH TWO FATHERS. [22]

##  STORY THE TWENTY-THIRD

THE LAWYER’S WIFE WHO PASSED THE LINE. [23]

##  STORY THE TWENTY-FOURTH

HALF-BOOTED. [24]

##  STORY THE TWENTY-FIFTH

FORCED WILLINGLY. [25]

##  STORY THE TWENTY-SIXTH

THE DAMSEL KNIGHT. [26]

##  STORY THE TWENTY-SEVENTH

THE HUSBAND IN THE CLOTHES-CHEST. [27]

##  STORY THE TWENTY-EIGHTH

THE INCAPABLE LOVER. [28]

##  STORY THE TWENTY-NINTH

THE COW AND THE CALF.

##  STORY THE THIRTIETH

THE THREE CORDELIERS

##  STORY THE THIRTY-FIRST

TWO LOVERS FOR ONE LADY. [31]

##  STORY THE THIRTY-SECOND

THE WOMEN WHO PAID TITHE. [32]

##  STORY THE THIRTY-THIRD

THE LADY WHO LOST HER HAIR.

##  STORY THE THIRTY-FOURTH

THE MAN ABOVE AND THE MAN BELOW. [34]

##  STORY THE THIRTY-FIFTH

THE EXCHANGE.

##  STORY THE THIRTY-SIXTH

AT WORK.

##  STORY THE THIRTY-SEVENTH

THE USE OF DIRTY WATER.

##  STORY THE THIRTY-EIGHTH

A ROD FOR ANOTHER’S BACK. [38]

##  STORY THE THIRTY-NINTH

BOTH WELL SERVED. [39]

##  STORY THE FORTIETH

THE BUTCHER’S WIFE WHO PLAYED THE GHOST IN THE

##  STORY THE FORTY-FIRST

LOVE IN ARMS.

##  STORY THE FORTY-SECOND

THE MARRIED PRIEST. [42]

##  STORY THE FORTY-THIRD

A BARGAIN IN HORNS.

##  STORY THE FORTY-FOURTH

THE MATCH-MAKING PRIEST.

##  STORY THE FORTY-FIFTH

THE SCOTSMAN TURNED WASHERWOMAN

##  STORY THE FORTY-SIXTH

HOW THE NUN PAID FOR THE PEARS. [46]

##  STORY THE FORTY-SEVENTH

TWO MULES DROWNED TOGETHER. [47]

##  STORY THE FORTY-EIGHTH

THE CHASTE MOUTH.

##  STORY THE FORTY-NINTH

THE SCARLET BACKSIDE.

##  STORY THE FIFTIETH

TIT FOR TAT. [50]

##  STORY THE FIFTY-FIRST

THE REAL FATHERS.

##  STORY THE FIFTY-SECOND

THE THREE REMINDERS. [52]

##  STORY THE FIFTY-THIRD

THE MUDDLED MARRIAGES.

##  STORY THE FIFTY FOURTH

THE RIGHT MOMENT.

##  STORY THE FIFTY-FIFTH

A CURE FOR THE PLAGUE.

##  STORY THE FIFTY-SIXTH

THE WOMAN, THE PRIEST, THE SERVANT, AND THE

##  STORY THE FIFTY-SEVENTH

THE OBLIGING BROTHER.

##  STORY THE FIFTY-EIGHTH

SCORN FOR SCORN.

##  STORY THE FIFTY-NINTH

THE SICK LOVER. [59]

##  STORY THE SIXTIETH

THREE VERY MINOR BROTHERS. [60]

##  STORY THE SIXTY-FIRST

CUCKOLDED, AND DUPED. [61]

##  STORY THE SIXTY-SECOND

THE LOST RING.

##  STORY THE SIXTY-THIRD

MONTBLERU; OR THE THIEF. [63]

##  STORY THE SIXTY-FOURTH

THE OVER-CUNNING CURÉ. [64]

##  STORY THE SIXTY-FIFTH

INDISCRETION REPROVED, BUT NOT PUNISHED.

##  STORY THE SIXTY-SIXTH

THE WOMAN AT THE BATH.

##  STORY THE SIXTY-SEVENTH

THE WOMAN WITH THREE HUSBANDS.

##  STORY THE SIXTY-EIGHTH

THE JADE DESPOILED.

##  STORY THE SIXTY-NINTH

THE VIRTUOUS LADY WITH TWO HUSBANDS. [69]

##  STORY THE SEVENTIETH

THE DEVIL’S HORN.

##  STORY THE SEVENTY-FIRST

THE CONSIDERATE CUCKOLD

##  STORY THE SEVENTY-SECOND

NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.

##  STORY THE SEVENTY-THIRD

THE BIRD IN THE CAGE.

##  STORY THE SEVENTY-FOURTH

THE OBSEQUIOUS PRIEST.

##  STORY THE SEVENTY-FIFTH

THE BAGPIPE. [75]

##  STORY THE SEVENTY-SIXTH

CAUGHT IN THE ACT. [76]

##  STORY THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH

THE SLEEVELESS ROBE.

##  STORY THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH

THE HUSBAND TURNED CONFESSOR. [78]

##  STORY THE SEVENTY-NINTH

THE LOST ASS FOUND. [79]

##  STORY THE EIGHTIETH

GOOD MEASURE! [80]

##  STORY THE EIGHTY-FIRST

BETWEEN TWO STOOLS. [81]

##  STORY THE EIGHTY-SECOND

BEYOND THE MARK. [82]

##  STORY THE EIGHTY-THIRD

THE GLUTTONOUS MONK.

##  STORY THE EIGHTY-FOURTH

THE DEVIL’S SHARE. [84]

##  STORY THE EIGHTY-FIFTH

NAILED! [85]

##  STORY THE EIGHTY-SIXTH

FOOLISH FEAR.

##  STORY THE EIGHTY-SEVENTH

WHAT THE EYE DOES NOT SEE.

##  STORY THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH

A HUSBAND IN HIDING. [88]

##  STORY THE EIGHTY-NINTH

THE FAULT OF THE ALMANAC.

##  STORY THE NINETIETH

A GOOD REMEDY. [90]

##  STORY THE NINETY-FIRST

THE OBEDIENT WIFE. [91]

##  STORY THE NINETY-SECOND

WOMEN’S QUARRELS.

##  STORY THE NINETY-THIRD

HOW A GOOD WIFE WENT ON A PILGRIMAGE. [93]

##  STORY THE NINETY-FOURTH

DIFFICULT TO PLEASE.

##  STORY THE NINETY-FIFTH

THE SORE FINGER CURED. [95]

##  STORY THE NINETY-SIXTH

A GOOD DOG. [96]

##  STORY THE NINETY-SEVENTH

BIDS AND BIDDINGS.

##  STORY THE NINETY-EIGHTH

THE UNFORTUNATE LOVERS.

##  STORY THE NINETY-NINTH

THE METAMORPHOSIS. [99]

##  STORY THE HUNDREDTH AND LAST

THE CHASTE LOVER.

NOTES.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Cover.jpg Cover

Spines.jpg Spines

Titlepage.jpg Titlepage

Contents.jpg Contents

Intro.jpg Introduction

01.jpg Story the First — The Reverse of The Medal.

03.jpg Story the Third — The Search for The Ring.

04.jpg Story the Fourth — The Armed Cuckold.

07.jpg The Waggoner in The Bear.

09.jpg The Husband Pandar to his Own Wife

12.jpg Story The Twelfth — The Calf.

13.jpg the Castrated Clerk.

14.jpg The Pope-maker, Or The Holy Man.

16.jpg On the Blind Side.

17.jpg The Lawyer and The Bolting-mill.

18.jpg From Belly to Back.

20.jpg The Husband As Doctor.

23.jpg The Lawyer’s Wife Who Passed The Line.

24.jpg Half-booted

27.jpg The Husband in The Clothes-chest.

28.jpg The Incapable Lover.

32.jpg The Women Who Paid Tithe.

34.jpg The Man Above and The Man Below.

37.jpg The Use of Dirty Water.

38.jpg A Rod for Another’s Back.

39.jpg Both Well Served.

41.jpg Love in Arms.

43.jpg A Bargain in Horns.

44.jpg The Match-making Priest.

46.jpg How the Nun Paid for The Pears.

49.jpg The Scarlet Backside.

52.jpg The Three Reminders.

54.jpg The Right Moment.

55.jpg A Cure for The Plague.

57.jpg The Obliging BroTher.

60.jpg Three Very Minor BroThers.

61.jpg Cuckolded—and Duped.

62.jpg The Lost Ring.

65.jpg Indiscretion Reproved, But Not Punished.

68.jpg The Jade Despoiled.

71.jpg The Considerate Cuckold

72.jpg Necessity is The MoTher of Invention.

73.jpg The Bird in The Cage.

76.jpg Caught in The Act.

78.jpg The Husband Turned Confessor.

80.jpg Good Measure!

83.jpg The Gluttonous Monk.

84.jpg The Devil’s Share.

86.jpg Foolish Fear.

88.jpg A Husband in Hiding.

90.jpg A Good Remedy.

92.jpg Women’s Quarrels.

95.jpg The Sore Finger Cured.

97.jpg Bids and Biddings.

100.jpg The Chaste Lover.

Footnotes.jpg Footnotes

Endplate.jpg Endplate

Gilded-top.jpg

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INTRODUCTION

STORY THE FIRST — THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL.

The first story tells of how one found means to enjoy the wife of his

neighbour, whose husband he had sent away in order that he might have

her the more easily, and how the husband returning from his journey,

found his friend bathing with his wife. And not knowing who she was, he

wished to see her, but was permitted only to see her back—, and then

thought that she resembled his wife, but dared not believe it. And

thereupon left and found his wife at home, she having escaped by a

postern door, and related to her his suspicions.

STORY THE SECOND — THE MONK-DOCTOR.

The second story, related by Duke Philip, is of a young girl who had

piles, who put out the only eye he had of a Cordelier monk who was

healing her, and of the lawsuit that followed thereon.

STORY THE THIRD — THE SEARCH FOR THE RING.

Of the deceit practised by a knight on a miller’s wife whom he made

believe that her front was loose, and fastened it many times. And the

miller informed of this, searched for a diamond that the knight’s lady

had lost, and found it in her body, as the knight knew afterwards: so he

called the miller “fisherman”, and the miller called him “fastener”.

STORY THE FOURTH — THE ARMED CUCKOLD.

The fourth tale is of a Scotch archer who was in love with a fair

and gentle dame, the wife of a mercer, who, by her husband’s orders

appointed a day for the said Scot to visit her, who came and treated her

as he wished, the said mercer being hid by the side of the bed, where he

could see and hear all.

STORY THE FIFTH — The Duel with the Buckle-Strap.

The fifth story relates two judgments of Lord Talbot. How a Frenchman

was taken prisoner (though provided with a safe-conduct) by an

Englishman, who said that buckle-straps were implements of war, and who

was made to arm himself with buckle-straps and nothing else, and meet

the Frenchman, who struck him with a sword in the presence of Talbot.

The other, story is about a man who robbed a church, and who was made to

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.

STORY THE NINTH — THE HUSBAND PANDAR TO HIS OWN WIFE.

Of a knight of Burgundy, who was marvellously amorous of one of his

wife’s waiting women, and thinking to sleep with her, slept with his

wife who was in the bed of the said tire-woman. And how he caused, by

his order, another knight, his neighbour to sleep with the said woman,

believing that it was really the tirewoman—and afterwards he was not

well pleased, albeit that the lady knew nothing, and was not aware, I

believe, that she had had to do with aught other than her own husband.

STORY THE TENTH — THE EEL PASTIES.

Of a knight of England, who, after he was married, wished his mignon to

procuré him some pretty girls, as he did before; which the mignon would

not do, saying that one wife sufficed; but the said knight brought him

back to obedience by causing eel pasties to be always served to him,

both at dinner and at supper.

STORY THE ELEVENTH — A SACRIFICE TO THE DEVIL.

Of a jealous rogue, who after many offerings made to divers saints to

curé him of his jealousy, offered a candle to the devil who is usually

painted under the feet of St. Michael; and of the dream that he had and

what happened to him when he awoke.

STORY THE TWELFTH — THE CALF.

Of a Dutchman, who at all hours of the day and night ceased not to

dally with his wife in love sports; and how it chanced that he laid her

down, as they went through a wood, under a great tree in which was a

labourer who had lost his calf. And as he was enumerating the charms of

his wife, and naming all the pretty things he could see, the labourer

asked him if he could not see the calf he sought, to which the Dutchman

replied that he thought he could see a tail.

STORY THE THIRTEENTH — THE CASTRATED CLERK.

How a lawyer’s clerk in England deceived his master making him believe

that he had no testicles, by which reason he had charge over his

mistress both in the country and in the town, and enjoyed his pleasure.

STORY THE FOURTEENTH — THE POPE-MAKER, OR THE HOLY MAN.

Of a hermit who deceived the daughter of a poor woman, making her

believe that her daughter should have a son by him who should become

Pope; and how, when she brought forth it was a girl, and thus was the

trickery of the hermit discovered, and for that cause he had to flee

from that countery.

STORY THE FIFTEENTH — THE CLEVER NUN.

Of a nun whom a monk wished to deceive, and how he offered to shoo her

his weapon that she might feel it, but brought with him a companion whom

he put forward in his place, and of the answer she gave him.

STORY THE SIXTEENTH — ON THE BLIND SIDE.

Of a knight of Picardy who went to Prussia, and, meanwhile his lady

took a lover, and was in bed with him when her husband returned; and how

by a cunning trick she got her lover out of the room without the knight

being aware of it.

STORY THE SEVENTEENTH — THE LAWYER AND THE BOLTING-MILL.

Of a President of Parliament, who fell in love with his chamber-maid,

and would have forced her whilst she was sifting flour, but by fair

speaking she dissuaded him, and made him shake the sieve whilst she

went unto her mistress, who came and found her husband thus, as you will

afterwards hear.

STORY THE EIGHTEENTH — FROM BELLY TO BACK.

Of a gentleman of Burgundy who paid a chambermaid ten crowns to sleep

with her, but before he left her room, had his ten crowns back, and

made her carry him on her shoulders through the host’s chamber. And in

passing by the said chamber he let wind so loudly that all was known, as

you will hear in the story which follows.

STORY THE NINETEENTH — THE CHILD OF THE SNOW.

Of an English merchant whose wife had a child in his absence, and told

him that it was his; and how he cleverly got rid of the child—for his

wife having asserted that it was born of the snow, he declared it had

been melted by the sun.

STORY THE TWENTIETH — THE HUSBAND AS DOCTOR.

Of a young squire of Champagne who, when he married, had never mounted

a Christian creature,—much to his wife’s regret. And of the method her

mother found to instruct him, and how the said squire suddenly wept at

a great feast that was made shortly after he had learned how to perform

the carnal act—as you will hear more plainly hereafter.

STORY THE TWENTY-FIRST — THE ABBESS CURED

Of an abbess who was ill for want of—you know what—but would not have

it done, fearing to be reproached by her nuns, but they all agreed to do

the same and most willingly did so.

STORY THE TWENTY-SECOND — THE CHILD WITH TWO FATHERS.

Of a gentleman who seduced a young girl, and then went away and joined

the army. And before his return she made the acquaintance of another,

and pretended her child was by him. When the gentleman returned from the

war he claimed the child, but she begged him to leave it with her second

lover, promising that the next she had she would give to him, as is

hereafter recorded.

STORY THE TWENTY-THIRD — THE LAWYER’S WIFE WHO PASSED THE LINE.

Of a clerk of whom his mistress was enamoured, and what he promised to

do and did to her if she crossed a line which the said clerk had made.

Seeing which, her little son told his father when he returned that he

must not cross the line; or said he, “the clerk will serve you as he did

mother.”

STORY THE TWENTY-FOURTH — HALF-BOOTED.

Of a Count who would ravish by force a fair, young girl who was one of

his subjects, and how she escaped from him by means of his leggings,

and how he overlooked her conduct and helped her to a husband, as is

hereafter related.

STORY THE TWENTY-FIFTH — FORCED WILLINGLY.

Of a girl who complained of being forced by a young man, whereas

she herself had helped him to find that which he sought;—and of the

judgment which was given thereon.

STORY THE TWENTY-SIXTH —THE DAMSEL KNIGHT.

Of the loves of a young gentleman and a damsel, who tested the loyalty

of the gentleman in a marvellous and courteous manner, and slept three

nights with him without his knowing that it was not a man,—as you will

more fully hear hereafter.

STORY THE TWENTY-SEVENTH — THE HUSBAND IN THE CLOTHES-CHEST.

Of a great lord of this kingdom and a married lady, who in order

that she might be with her lover caused her husband to be shut in a

clothes-chest by her waiting women, and kept him there all the night,

whilst she passed the time with her lover; and of the wagers made

between her and the said husband, as you will find afterwards recorded.

STORY THE TWENTY-EIGHTH —THE INCAPABLE LOVER.

Of the meeting assigned to a great Prince of this kingdom by a damsel

who was chamber-woman to the Queen; of the little feats of arms of the

said Prince and of the neat replies made by the said damsel to the Queen

concerning her greyhound which had been purposely shut out of the room

of the said Queen, as you shall shortly hear.

STORY THE TWENTY-NINTH — THE COW AND THE CALF.

Of a gentleman to whom—the first night that he was married, and after

he had but tried one stroke—his wife brought forth a child, and of

the manner in which he took it,—and of the speech that he made to his

companions when they brought him the caudle, as you shall shortly hear.

STORY THE THIRTIETH — THE THREE CORDELIERS.

Of three merchants of Savoy who went on a pilgrimage to St. Anthony

in Vienne, and who were deceived and cuckolded by three Cordeliers who

slept with their wives. And how the women thought they had been with

their husbands, and how their husbands came to know of it, and of the

steps they took, as you shall shortly hear.

STORY THE THIRTY-FIRST — TWO LOVERS FOR ONE LADY.

Of a squire who found the mule of his companion, and mounted thereon

and it took him to the house of his master’s mistress; and the squire

slept there, where his friend found him; also of the words which passed

between them—as is more clearly set out below.

STORY THE THIRTY-SECOND — THE WOMEN WHO PAID TITHE.

Of the Cordeliers of Ostelleria in Catalonia, who took tithe from the

women of the town, and how it was known, and the punishment the lord of

that place and his subjects inflicted on the monks, as you shall learn

hereafter.

STORY THE THIRTY-THIRD — THE LADY WHO LOST HER HAIR.

Of a noble lord who was in love with a damsel who cared for another

great lord, but tried to keep it secret; and of the agreement made

between the two lovers concerning her, as you shall hereafter hear.

STORY THE THIRTY-FOURTH — THE MAN ABOVE AND THE MAN BELOW.

Of a married woman who gave rendezvous to two lovers, who came and

visited her, and her husband came soon after, and of the words which

passed between them, as you shall presently hear.

STORY THE THIRTY-FIFTH — THE EXCHANGE.

Of a knight whose mistress married whilst he was on his travels, and on

his return, by chance he came to her house, and she, in order that she

might sleep with him, caused a young damsel, her chamber-maid, to go to

bed with her husband; and of the words that passed between the husband

and the knight his guest, as are more fully recorded hereafter.

STORY THE THIRTY-SIXTH — AT WORK.

Of a squire who saw his mistress, whom he greatly loved, between

two other gentlemern, and did not notice that she had hold of both of

them till another knight informed him of the matter as you will hear.

STORY THE THIRTY-SEVENTH — THE USE OF DIRTY WATER.

Of a jealous man who recorded all the tricks which he could hear or

learn by which wives had deceived their husbands in old times; but at

last he was deceived by means of dirty water which the lover of the said

lady threw out of window upon her as she was going to Mass, as you shall

hear hereafter.

STORY THE THIRTY-EIGHTH — A ROD FOR ANOTHER’S BACK.

Of a citizen of Tours who bought a lamprey which he sent to his wife

to cook in order that he might give a feast to the priest, and the said

wife sent it to a Cordelier, who was her lover, and how she made a woman

who was her neighbour sleep with her husband, and how the woman was

beaten, and what the wife made her husband believe, as you will hear

hereafter.

STORY THE THIRTY-NINTH — BOTH WELL SERVED.

Of a knight who, whilst he was waiting for his mistress amused himself

three times with her maid, who had been sent to keep him company that

he might not be dull; and afterwards amused himself three times with

the lady, and how the husband learned it all from the maid, as you will

hear.

STORY THE FORTIETH — THE BUTCHER’S WIFE THE GHOST IN THE CHIMNEY.

Of a Jacobin who left his mistress, a butcher’s wife, for another woman

who was younger and prettier, and how the said butcher’s wife tried to

enter his house by the chimney.

STORY THE FORTY-FIRST — LOVE IN ARMS.

Of a knight who made his wife wear a hauberk whenever he would do you

know what; and of a clerk who taught her another method which she almost

told her husband, but turned it off suddenly.

STORY THE FORTY-SECOND — THE MARRIED PRIEST.

Of a village clerk who being at Rome and believing that his wife was

dead became a priest, and was appointed curé of his own town, and when

he returned, the first person he met was his wife.

STORY THE FORTY-THIRD — A BARGAIN IN HORNS.

Of a labourer who found a man with his wife, and forwent his revenge

for a certain quantity of wheat, but his wife insisted that he should

complete the work he had begun.

STORY THE FORTY-FOURTH —THE MATCH-MAKING PRIEST.

Of a village priest who found a husband for a girl with whom he was in

love, and who had promised him that when she was married she would do

whatever he wished, of which he reminded her on the wedding-day, and the

husband heard it, and took steps accordingly, as you will hear.

STORY THE FORTY-FIFTH — THE SCOTSMAN TURNED WASHERWOMAN

Of a young Scotsman who was disguised as a woman for the space of

fourteen years, and by that means slept with many girls and married

women, but was punished in the end, as you will hear.

STORY THE FORTY-SIXTH — HOW THE NUN PAID FOR THE PEARS.

Of a Jacobin and a nun, who went secretly to an orchard to enjoy

pleasant pastime under a pear-tree; in which tree was hidden one who

knew of the assignation, and who spoiled their sport for that time, as

you will hear.

STORY THE FORTY-SEVENTH —TWO MULES DROWNED TOGETHER.

Of a President who knowing of the immoral conduct of his wife, caused

her to be drowned by her mule, which had been kept without drink for a

week, and given salt to eat—as is more clearly related hereafter.

STORY THE FORTY-EIGHTH — THE CHASTE MOUTH.

Of a woman who would not suffer herself to be kissed, though she

willingly gave up all the rest of her body except the mouth, to her

lover—and the reason that she gave for this.

STORY THE FORTY-NINTH —THE SCARLET BACKSIDE.

Of one who saw his wife with a man to whom she gave the whole of her

body, except her backside, which she left for her husband and he made

her dress one day when his friends were present in a woollen gown on the

backside of which was a piece of fine scarlet, and so left her before

all their friends.

STORY THE FIFTIETH — TIT FOR TAT.

Of a father who tried to kill his son because the young man wanted to

lie with his grandmother, and the reply made by the said son.

STORY THE FIFTY-FIRST — THE REAL FATHERS.

Of a woman who on her death-bed, in the absence of her husband, made

over her children to those to whom they belonged, and how one of the

youngest of the children informed his father.

STORY THE FIFTY-SECOND — THE THREE REMINDERS.

Of three counsels that a father when on his deathbed gave his son, but

to which the son paid no heed. And how he renounced a young girl he had

married, because he saw her lying with the family chaplain the first

night after their wedding.

STORY THE FIFTY-THIRD — THE MUDDLED MARRIAGES.

Of two men and two women who were waiting to be married at the first

Mass in the early morning; and because the priest could not see well, he

took the one for the other, and gave to each man the wrong wife, as you

will hear.

STORY THE FIFTY FOURTH — THE RIGHT MOMENT.

Of a damsel of Maubeuge who gave herself up to a waggoner, and refused

many noble lovers; and of the reply that she made to a noble knight

because he reproached her for this—as you will hear.

STORY THE FIFTY-FIFTH — A CURÉ FOR THE PLAGUE.

Of a girl who was ill of the plague and caused the death of three men

who lay with her, and how the fourth was saved, and she also.

STORY THE FIFTY-SIXTH — THE WOMAN, PRIEST, SERVANT, AND WOLF.

Of a gentleman who caught, in a trap that he laid, his wife, the

priest, her maid, and a wolf; and burned them all alive, because his

wife committed adultery with the priest.

STORY THE FIFTY-SEVENTH — THE OBLIGING BROTHER.

Of a damsel who married a shepherd, and how the marriage was arranged,

and what a gentleman, the brother of the damsel, said.

STORY THE FIFTY-EIGHTH — SCORN FOR SCORN.

Of two comrades who wished to make their mistresses better inclined

towards them, and so indulged in debauchery, and said, that as after

that their mistresses still scorned them, that they too must have played

at the same game—as you will hear.

STORY THE FIFTY-NINTH — THE SICK LOVER.

Of a lord who pretended to be sick in order that he might lie with the

servant maid, with whom his wife found him.

STORY THE SIXTIETH — THREE VERY MINOR BROTHERS.

Of three women of Malines, who were acquainted with three cordeliers,

and had their heads shaved, and donned the gown that they might not be

recognised, and how it was made known.

STORY THE SIXTY-FIRST — CUCKOLDED—AND DUPED.

Of a merchant who locked up in a bin his wife’s lover, and she secretly

put an ass there which caused her husband to be covered with confusion.

STORY THE SIXTY-SECOND — THE LOST RING.

Of two friends, one of whom left a diamond in the bed of his hostess,

where the other found it, from which there arose a great discussion

between them, which the husband of the said hostess settled in an

effectual manner.

STORY THE SIXTY-THIRD — MONTBLERU; OR THE THIEF.

Of one named Montbleru, who at a fair at Antwerp stole from his

companions their shirts and handkerchiefs, which they had given to the

servant-maid of their hostess to be washed; and how afterwards they

pardoned the thief, and then the said Montbleru told them the whole of

the story.

STORY THE SIXTY-FOURTH — THE OVER-CUNNING CURÉ.

Of a priest who would have played a joke upon a gelder named

Trenche-couille, but, by the connivance of his host, was himself

castrated.

STORY THE SIXTY-FIFTH — INDISCRETION REPROVED, BUT NOT PUNISHED.

Of a woman who heard her husband say that an innkeeper at Mont St.

Michel was excellent at copulating, so went there, hoping to try for

herself, but her husband took means to prevent it, at which she was much

displeased, as you will hear shortly.

STORY THE SIXTY-SIXTH — THE WOMAN AT THE BATH.

Of an inn-keeper at Saint Omer who put to his son a question for which

he was afterwards sorry when he heard the reply, at which his wife was

much ashamed, as you will hear, later.

STORY THE SIXTY-SEVENTH — THE WOMAN WITH THREE HUSBANDS

Of a “fur hat” of Paris, who wished to deceive a cobbler’s wife, but

over-reached, himself, for he married her to a barber, and thinking that

he was rid of her, would have wedded another, but she prevented him, as

you will hear more plainly hereafter.

STORY THE SIXTY-EIGHTH — THE JADE DESPOILED.

Of a married man who found his wife with another man, and devised

means to get from her her money, clothes, jewels, and all, down to

her chemise, and then sent her away in that condition, as shall be

afterwards recorded.

STORY THE SIXTY-NINTH — THE VIRTUOUS LADY WITH TWO HUSBANDS.

Of a noble knight of Flanders, who was married to a beautiful and noble

lady. He was for many years a prisoner in Turkey, during which time his

good and loving wife was, by the importunities of her friends, induced

to marry another knight. Soon after she had remarried, she heard that

her husband had returned from Turkey, whereupon she allowed herself to

die of grief, because she had contracted a fresh marriage.

STORY THE SEVENTIETH — THE DEVIL’S HORN.

Of a noble knight of Germany, a great traveller in his time; who after

he had made a certain voyage, took a vow to never make the sign of

the Cross, owing to the firm faith and belief that he had in the holy

sacrament of baptism—in which faith he fought the devil, as you will

hear.

STORY THE SEVENTY-FIRST — THE CONSIDERATE CUCKOLD

Of a knight of Picardy, who lodged at an inn in the town of St. Omer,

and fell in lave with the hostess, with whom he was amusing himself—you

know how—when her husband discovered them; and how he behaved—as you

will shortly hear.

STORY THE SEVENTY-SECOND — NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.

Of a gentleman of Picardy who was enamoured of the wife of a knight his

neighbour; and how he obtained the lady’s favours and was nearly caught

with her, and with great difficulty made his escape, as you will hear

later.

STORY THE SEVENTY-THIRD — THE BIRD IN THE CAGE.

Of a curé who was in love with the wife of one of his parishioners,

with whom the said curé was found by the husband of the woman, the

neighbours having given him warning—and how the curé escaped, as you

will hear.

STORY THE SEVENTY-FOURTH — THE OBSEQUIOUS PRIEST.

Of a priest of Boulogne who twice raised the body of Our Lord whilst

chanting a Mass, because he believed that the Seneschal of Boulogne

had come late to the Mass, and how he refused to take the Pax until the

Seneschal had done so, as you will hear hereafter.

STORY THE SEVENTY-FIFTH — THE BAGPIPE.

Of a hare-brained half-mad fellow who ran a great risk of being put

to death by being hanged on a gibbet in order to injure and annoy the

Bailly, justices, and other notables of the city of Troyes in Champagne

by whom he was mortally hated, as will appear more plainly hereafter.

STORY THE SEVENTY-SIXTH — CAUGHT IN THE ACT.

Of the chaplain to a knight of Burgundy who was enamoured of the wench

of the said knight, and of the adventure which happened on account of

his amour, as you will hear below.

STORY THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH — THE SLEEVELESS ROBE.

Of a gentleman of Flanders, who went to reside in France, but whilst he

was there his mother was very ill in Flanders; and how he often went

to visit her believing that she would die, and what he said and how he

behaved, as you will hear later.

STORY THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH — THE HUSBAND TURNED CONFESSOR.

Of a married gentleman who made many long voyages, during which time his

good and virtuous wife made the acquaintance of three good fellows, as

you will hear; and how she confessed her amours to her husband when he

returned from his travels, thinking she was confessing to the curé, and

how she excused herself, as will appear.

STORY THE SEVENTY-NINTH — THE LOST ASS FOUND.

Of a good man of Bourbonnais who went to seek the advice of a wise man

of that place about an ass that he had lost, and how he believed that he

miraculously recovered the said ass, as you will hear hereafter.

STORY THE EIGHTIETH — GOOD MEASURE!

Of a young German girl, aged fifteen or sixteen or thereabouts who was

married to a gentle gallant, and who complained that her husband had too

small an organ for her liking, because she had seen a young ass of only

six months old which had a bigger instrument than her husband, who was

24 or 26 years old.

STORY THE EIGHTY-FIRST — BETWEEN TWO STOOLS.

Of a noble knight who was in love with a beautiful young married lady,

and thought himself in her good graces, and also in those of another

lady, her neighbour; but lost both as is afterwards recorded.

STORY THE EIGHTY-SECOND — BEYOND THE MARK.

Of a shepherd who made an agreement with a shepherdess that he should

mount upon her “in order that he might see farther,” but was not to

penetrate beyond a mark which she herself made with her hand upon the

instrument of the said shepherd—as will more plainly appear hereafter.

STORY THE EIGHTY-THIRD — THE GLUTTONOUS MONK.

Of a Carmelite monk who came to preach at a village and after his

sermon, he went to dine with a lady, and how he stuffed out his gown, as

you will hear.

STORY THE EIGHTY-FOURTH — THE DEVIL’S SHARE.

Of one of his marshals who married the sweetest and most lovable woman

there was in all Germany. Whether what I tell you is true—for I do

not swear to it that I may not be considered a liar—you will see more

plainly below.

STORY THE EIGHTY-FIFTH — NAILED!

Of a goldsmith, married to a fair, kind, and gracious lady, and very

amorous withal of a curé, her neighbour, with whom her husband found her

in bed, they being betrayed by one of the goldsmith’s servants, who was

jealous, as you will hear.

STORY THE EIGHTY-SIXTH — FOOLISH PEAR.

Of a young man of Rouen, married to a fair, young girl of the age of

fifteen or thereabouts; and how the mother of the girl wished to have

the marriage annulled by the Judge of Rouen, and of the sentence which

the said Judge pronounced when he had heard the parties—as you will

hear more plainly in the course of the said story.

STORY THE EIGHTY-SEVENTH — WHAT THE EYE DOES NOT SEE.

Of a gentle knight who was enamoured of a young and beautiful girl,

and how he caught a malady in one of his eyes, and therefore sent for a

doctor, who likewise fell in love with the same girl, as you will

hear; and of the words which passed between the knight and the doctor

concerning the plaster which the doctor had put on the knight’s good

eye.

STORY THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH — A HUSBAND IN HIDING.

Of a poor, simple peasant married to a nice, pleasant woman, who did

much as she liked, and who in order that she might be alone with her

lover, shut up her husband in the pigeon-house in the manner you will

hear.

STORY THE EIGHTY-NINTH — THE FAULT OF THE ALMANAC.

Of a curé who forgot, either by negligence or ignorance, to inform his

parishioners that Lent had come until Palm Sunday arrived, as you

will hear—and of the manner in which he excused himself to his

parishioners.

STORY THE NINETIETH — A GOOD REMEDY.

Of a good merchant of Brabant whose wife was very ill, and he supposing

that she was about to die, after many remonstrances and exhortations for

the salvation of her soul, asked her pardon, and she pardoned him all

his misdeeds, excepting that he had not worked her as much as he ought

to have done—as will appear more plainly in the said story.

STORY THE NINETY-FIRST — THE OBEDIENT WIFE.

Of a man who was married to a woman so lascivious and lickerish, that

I believe she must have been born in a stove or half a league from the

summer sun, for no man, however well he might work, could satisfy her;

and how her husband thought to punish her, and the answer she gave him.

STORY THE NINETY-SECOND — WOMEN’S QUARRELS.

Of a married woman who was in love with a Canon, and, to avoid

suspicion, took with her one of her neighbours when she went to visit

the Canon; and of the quarrel that arose between the two women, as you

will hear.

STORY THE NINETY-THIRD — HOW A GOOD WIFE WENT ON A PILGRIMAGE.

Of a good wife who pretended to her husband that she was going on

a pilgrimage, in order to find opportunity to be with her lover the

parish-clerk—with whom her husband found her; and of what he said and

did when he saw them doing you know what.

STORY THE NINETY-FOURTH — DIFFICULT TO PLEASE.

Of a curé who wore a short gown, like a gallant about to be married,

for which cause he was summoned before the Ordinary, and of the sentence

which was passed, and the defence he made, and the other tricks he

played afterwards—as you will plainly hear.

STORY THE NINETY-FIFTH — THE SORE FINGER CURED.

Of a monk who feigned to be very ill and in danger of death, that he

might obtain the favours of a certain young woman in the manner which is

described hereafter.

STORY THE NINETY-SIXTH — A GOOD DOG.

Of a foolish and rich village curé who buried his dog in the

church-yard; for which cause he was summoned before his Bishop, ana

how he gave 60 gold crowns to the Bishop, and what the Bishop said to

him—which you will find related here.

STORY THE NINETY-SEVENTH — BIDS AND BIDDINGS.

Of a number of boon companions making good cheer and drinking at

a tavern, and how one of them had a quarrel with his wife when he

returned home, as you will hear.

STORY THE NINETY-EIGHTH — THE UNFORTUNATE LOVERS.

Of a knight of this kingdom and his wife, who had a fair daughter aged

fifteen or sixteen. Her father would have married her to a rich old

knight, his neighbour, but she ran away with another knight, a young

man who loved her honourably; and, by strange mishap, they both died sad

deaths without having ever co-habited,—as you will hear shortly.

STORY THE NINETY-NINTH — THE METAMORPHOSIS.

Relates how a Spanish Bishop, not being able to procure fish, ate

two partridges on a Friday, and how he told his servants that he had

converted them by his prayers into fish—as will more plainly be related

below.

STORY THE HUNDREDTH AND LAST — THE CHASTE LOVER.

Of a rich merchant of the city of Genoa, who married a fair damsel,

who owing to the absence of her husband, sent for a wise clerk—a young,

fit, and proper man—to help her to that of which she had need; and

of the fast that he caused her to make—as you will find more plainly

below.

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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF ANTOINE DE LA SALLE

Compiled by David Widger

CONTENTS

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ONE HUNDRED MERRIE AND DELIGHTSOME STORIES

Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Jollity

LES CENT NOUVELLES NOUVELLES

1899

Edited by Antoine de la Salle Illustrated by Léon Lebèque

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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