Droll Stories — Volume 3
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Chapters (18)
- DROLL STORIES
- CONTENTS
- THIRD TEN TALES
- PROLOGUE
- PERSEVERANCE IN LOVE
- CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS
- ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY
- BERTHA THE PENITENT
- II HOW BERTHA BEHAVED, KNOWING THE BUSINESS OF LOVE
- III HORRIBLE CHASTISEMENT OF BERTHA AND EXPIATION OF THE SAME, WHO DIED PARDONED
- HOW THE PRETTY MAID OF PORTILLON CONVINCED HER JUDGE
- IN WHICH IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT FORTUNE IS ALWAYS FEMININE
- CONCERNING A POOR MAN WHO WAS CALLED LE VIEUX PAR-CHEMINS
- ODD SAYINGS OF THREE PILGRIMS
- INNOCENCE
- THE FAIR IMPERIA MARRIED
- II HOW THIS MARRIAGE ENDED
- EPILOGUE
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