Droll Stories — Volume 2
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Chapters (22)
- DROLL STORIES
- CONTENTS
- SECOND TEN TALES
- PROLOGUE
- THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS
- THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST
- THE MERRY TATTLE OF THE NUNS OF POISSY
- HOW THE CHATEAU D'AZAY CAME TO BE BUILT
- THE FALSE COURTESAN
- HERE LIES BERTHA DE BOURGONGE THE NOBLE AND COMELY WIFE OF RAOUL, SIRE DE HOCQUETONVILLE.
- THE DANGER OF BEING TOO INNOCENT
- THE DEAR NIGHT OF LOVE
- THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON
- THE SUCCUBUS
- I WHAT THE SUCCUBUS WAS.
- II THE PROCEEDINGS TAKEN RELATIVE TO THIS FEMALE VAMPIRE.
- PETITION
- PETITION
- III WHAT THE SUCCUBUS DID TO SUCK OUT THE SOUL OF THE OLD JUDGE, AND WHAT CAME OF THE DIABOLICAL DELECTATION.
- IV HOW THE MOORISH WOMAN OF THE RUE CHAUDE TWISTED ABOUT SO BRISKLY THAT WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY WAS SHE BURNED AND COOKED ALIVE, TO THE GREAT LOSS OF THE INFERNAL REGIONS.
- DESPAIR IN LOVE
- EPILOGUE
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