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diff --git a/17701-h/17701-h.htm b/17701-h/17701-h.htm index 1b352a0..4cbb08f 100644 --- a/17701-h/17701-h.htm +++ b/17701-h/17701-h.htm @@ -1,18 +1,13 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> - -<!DOCTYPE html - PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" > - -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> + <meta charset="utf-8"> <title> - The Heptameron, Volume I. + The Heptameron, Volume I. | Project Gutenberg </title> - <style type="text/css" xml:space="preserve"> + <style> - body { margin:5%; background:#faebd7; text-align:justify} + body { margin:5%; text-align:justify} P { text-indent: 2em; margin-top: .25em; margin-bottom: .25em; } H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; margin-left: 15%; margin-right: 15%; } hr { width: 50%; text-align: center;} @@ -27,47 +22,47 @@ </style> </head> <body> - <div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALES OF THE HEPTAMERON, VOL. 1 (OF 5) ***</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 17701 ***</div> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img alt="cover (92K)" src="images/cover.jpg" width="100%" /> + <img alt="cover (92K)" src="images/cover.jpg" style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > <br > <br > </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img alt="spines (63K)" src="images/spines.jpg" width="100%" /> + <img alt="spines (63K)" src="images/spines.jpg" style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> <h1> - THE TALES OF<br /> THE HEPTAMERON<br /> <br /> OF<br /> <br /> Margaret, Queen + THE TALES OF<br > THE HEPTAMERON<br > <br > OF<br > <br > Margaret, Queen of Navarre </h1> <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> <h3> - <i>Newly Translated into English from the Authentic Text</i> <br /> <br /> - OF M. LE ROUX DE LINCY WITH <br /> <br /> AN ESSAY UPON THE HEPTAMERON <br /> - BY <br /> GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A. <br /> <br /> Also the Original - Seventy-three Full Page Engravings <br /> Designed by S. FREUDENBERG <br /> - <br /> And One Hundred and Fifty Head and Tail Pieces <br /> By DUNKER<br /> - <br /> <i>IN FIVE VOLUMES</i> + <i>Newly Translated into English from the Authentic Text</i> <br > <br > + OF M. LE ROUX DE LINCY WITH <br > <br > AN ESSAY UPON THE HEPTAMERON <br > + BY <br > GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A. <br > <br > Also the Original + Seventy-three Full Page Engravings <br > Designed by S. FREUDENBERG <br > + <br > And One Hundred and Fifty Head and Tail Pieces <br > By DUNKER<br > + <br > <i>IN FIVE VOLUMES</i> </h3> <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> <h2> VOLUME THE FIRST </h2> <h4> - LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF ENGLISH BIBLIOPHILISTS <br /> MDCCCXCIV + LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF ENGLISH BIBLIOPHILISTS <br > MDCCCXCIV </h4> <p> - <br /> <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > <br > </p> - <table summary="" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto" cellpadding="4" border="3"> + <table style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; padding: 4px; border: 3px solid;"> <tbody> <tr> <td> @@ -94,36 +89,36 @@ </tbody> </table> <p> - <br /> <br /> <a name="linkimage-0001" id="linkimage-0001"> + <br > <br > <a id="linkimage-0001"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/frontispiece.jpg" width="100%" alt="Frontispiece " /> + <img src="images/frontispiece.jpg" alt="Frontispiece " style="width: 100%"> </div> <h4> [Margaret, Queen of Navarre, from a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris] </h4> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0002" id="linkimage-0002"> + <a id="linkimage-0002"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/titlepage.jpg" width="100%" alt="Titlepage " /> + <img src="images/titlepage.jpg" alt="Titlepage " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> <blockquote> <p class="toc"> - <big><b>CONTENTS</b></big> + <span style="font-size: larger"><b>CONTENTS</b></span> </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p class="toc"> <a href="#link2H_PREF"> PREFACE. </a> @@ -133,7 +128,7 @@ Notes</i>. </a> </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p class="toc"> <a href="#link2H_4_0004"> <i><b>MARGARET OF ANGOULÊME, QUEEN OF NAVARRE</b>.</i> @@ -165,10 +160,10 @@ Reader </a> </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2H_4_0013"> <big><b>THE HEPTAMERON</b></big> </a> + <a href="#link2H_4_0013"> <span style="font-size: larger"><b>THE HEPTAMERON</b></span> </a> </p> <p class="toc"> <a href="#link2H_PROL"> PROLOGUE. </a> @@ -198,7 +193,7 @@ <a href="#link2H_4_0022"> <i>TALE VII</i>. </a> </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p class="toc"> <a href="#link2H_APPE"> <b>APPENDIX.</b> </a> @@ -213,11 +208,11 @@ <a href="#link2H_4_0026"> C. (Tale IV., Page 85.) </a> </p> <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> <h2> List of Illustrations @@ -302,55 +297,55 @@ </p> </blockquote> <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /> <br /> <a name="link2H_TOC" id="link2H_TOC"> + <br > <br > <a id="link2H_TOC"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> TALE CONTENTS </h2> - <table summary=""> + <table> <tr> <td> - <a href="#link2H_4_0015"> <b>FIRST DAY.</b> </a> <br /><br /> <a + <a href="#link2H_4_0015"> <b>FIRST DAY.</b> </a> <br ><br > <a href="#link2H_4_0016">Tale I.</a> The pitiful history of a Proctor of - Alençon, named St. Aignan, <br /> and of his wife, who caused her - husband to assassinate her lover, the <br /> son of the - Lieutenant-General <br /><br /> <a href="#link2H_4_0017">Tale II.</a> + Alençon, named St. Aignan, <br > and of his wife, who caused her + husband to assassinate her lover, the <br > son of the + Lieutenant-General <br ><br > <a href="#link2H_4_0017">Tale II.</a> The fate of the wife of a muleteer of Amboise, who suffered herself - <br /> to be killed by her servant rather than sacrifice her chastity - <br /><br /> <a href="#link2H_4_0018">Tale III.</a> The revenge taken by - the Queen of Naples, wife to King Alfonso, for <br /> her husband’s - infidelity with a gentleman’s wife <br /><br /> <a href="#link2H_4_0019">Tale + <br > to be killed by her servant rather than sacrifice her chastity + <br ><br > <a href="#link2H_4_0018">Tale III.</a> The revenge taken by + the Queen of Naples, wife to King Alfonso, for <br > her husband’s + infidelity with a gentleman’s wife <br ><br > <a href="#link2H_4_0019">Tale IV.</a> The ill success of a Flemish gentleman who was unable to - obtain, <br /> either by persuasion or force, the love of a great - Princess <br /><br /> <a href="#link2H_4_0020">Tale V.</a> How a - boatwoman of Coulon, near Nyort, contrived to escape from the <br /> - vicious designs of two Grey Friars <br /><br /> <a href="#link2H_4_0021">Tale + obtain, <br > either by persuasion or force, the love of a great + Princess <br ><br > <a href="#link2H_4_0020">Tale V.</a> How a + boatwoman of Coulon, near Nyort, contrived to escape from the <br > + vicious designs of two Grey Friars <br ><br > <a href="#link2H_4_0021">Tale VI.</a> How the wife of an old valet of the Duke of Alençon’s - succeeded <br /> in saving her lover from her husband, who was blind of - one eye <br /><br /> <a href="#link2H_4_0022">Tale VII.</a> The craft of - a Parisian merchant, who saved the reputation of the <br /> daughter by - offering violence to the mother <br /> + succeeded <br > in saving her lover from her husband, who was blind of + one eye <br ><br > <a href="#link2H_4_0022">Tale VII.</a> The craft of + a Parisian merchant, who saved the reputation of the <br > daughter by + offering violence to the mother <br > </td> </tr> </table> <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /> <br /> <a name="link2H_PREF" id="link2H_PREF"> + <br > <br > <a id="link2H_PREF"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> PREFACE. @@ -436,16 +431,16 @@ London, </p> <p> - 1893. <a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003"> + 1893. <a id="link2H_4_0003"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> <i>Explanation of the Initials appended to the Notes</i>. </h2> - <table summary=""> + <table> <tr> <td> <p> @@ -470,26 +465,26 @@ </tr> </table> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0004" id="link2H_4_0004"> + <a id="link2H_4_0004"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> <i>MARGARET OF ANGOULÊME, QUEEN OF NAVARRE.</i> </h2> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0005" id="link2H_4_0005"> + <a id="link2H_4_0005"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> I. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>Louise of Savoy; her marriage with the Count of Angouleme— Birth of her children Margaret and Francis—Their father’s early death—Louise and her children at Amboise—Margaret’s @@ -506,7 +501,7 @@ necessary at the outset to refer to the mother whose influence and companionship served so greatly to mould her daughter’s career. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 This Life of Margaret is based upon the memoir by M, Le Roux de Lincy prefixed to the edition of the <i>Heptameron</i> issued by the Société des Bibliophiles Français, but various @@ -528,7 +523,7 @@ second son, the notorious Duke Louis of Orleans, (2) who was murdered in Paris in 1417 at the instigation of John the Bold of Burgundy. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 The value of the Paris livre at this date was twenty sols, so that the amount would be equivalent to about L1400. @@ -577,7 +572,7 @@ necessary to join in jesting and gallant conversation she showed that she was acquainted with more than her daily bread.” (3) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Sainte-Marthe’s <i>Oraison funèbre de la Royne de Navarre</i>, p. 22. Margaret’s modern biographers state that this lady was Madame de Chastillon, but it is doubtful which Madame @@ -614,7 +609,7 @@ palatial Château of Amboise, originally built by the Counts of Anjou, and fortified by Charles VII. with the most formidable towers in France. (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 The Château of Amboise, now the private property of the Count de Paris, is said to occupy the site of a Roman fortress destroyed by the Normans and rebuilt by Foulques @@ -647,7 +642,7 @@ personage standing behind her being Artus Gouffier, her own and her brother’s governor. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Fleurange’s <i>Histoire des Choses mémorables advenues du Reigne de Louis XII. et François I</i>. @@ -681,7 +676,7 @@ like Louise of Savoy, to devote herself to the education of her children. (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Hilarion de Coste’s <i>Vies et Éloges des Dames illustres</i>, vol. ii. p. 260. </pre> @@ -718,7 +713,7 @@ twenty-first year, was declared a major and placed in possession of his estates. (1) The marriage was solemnised at Blois in October 1509. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Odolant Desnos’s <i>Mémoires historiques sur Alençon</i>, vol. ii. p. 231 </pre> @@ -776,7 +771,7 @@ result of this victory, and peace supervening, the Duke of Alençon returned to France. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Odolant Desnos’s <i>Mémoires historiques sur Alençon</i>, vol. ii. p. 238. </pre> @@ -809,7 +804,7 @@ cruel illness so often left in those days, and she even preserved the freshness of her complexion until late in life. (2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 It is preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, where it will be found in the <i>Recueil de Portraits au crayon par Clouett Dumonstier, &c</i>, fol. xi. @@ -829,7 +824,7 @@ was solemn, but the dignified air of her person was tempered by extreme affability and a lively humour, which never left her. (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Sainte-Marthe says on this subject: “For in her face, in her gestures, in her walk, in her words, in all that she did and said, a royal gravity made itself so manifest and @@ -873,7 +868,7 @@ Anne of Brittany, had become a hanger-on at the Court of Francis I., applied to Margaret to take him into her service. (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Epistle ii.: <i>Le Despourveu à Madame la Duchesse d’Alençon</i>, in the <i>OEuvres de Clément Marot</i>, 1700, vol. i. p. 99. @@ -882,7 +877,7 @@ Shortly afterwards we find him furnishing her with information respecting the royal army, which had entered Hainault and was fighting there. (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Epistle iii.: <i>Du Camp d’ Attigny à ma dite Dame d’ Alençon, ibid.</i>, vol. i. p. 104. </pre> @@ -936,16 +931,16 @@ to drive the French under Bonnivet out of Italy. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0006" id="link2H_4_0006"> + <a id="link2H_4_0006"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> II. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>The Regency of Louise of Savoy—Margaret and the royal children—The defeat of Pavia and the death of the Duke of Alençon—The Royal Trinity—“All is lost save honour”— @@ -1001,7 +996,7 @@ that, unable to bear the shame he felt for his conduct, he died only a few days after the battle. (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 See Garnier’s <i>Histoire de France</i>, vol. xxiv.; Gaillard’s <i>Histoire de France, &c</i>. Odolant Desnos, usually well informed, falls into the same error, and asserts that when @@ -1043,7 +1038,7 @@ two children that they were habitually called the “Trinity,” as Clement Marot and Margaret have recorded in their poems. (2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 From a MS. poem in the Bibliothèque Nationale entitled <i>Les Prisons</i>, probably written by William Philander or Filandrier, a canon of Rodez. @@ -1071,7 +1066,7 @@ day and evening last not a moment is lost over your business, so that you need have no grief or care about your kingdom and children.” (2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 See extract from the Registers of the Parliament of Paris (Nov. 10, 1525) in Dulaure’s <i>Histoire de Paris</i>, Paris, 1837, vol. iii. p. 209; and Lalanne’s <i>Journal d’un @@ -1107,7 +1102,7 @@ acquitted himself thereof in such a way that I have occasion to be gratified.” (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Génin’s <i>Lettres de Marguerite, &c</i>., p. 193.—Génin’s Notice, <i>ibid</i>., p. 19. </pre> @@ -1137,7 +1132,7 @@ folks, who understand what honour is, I should not care, but it is the contrary.” (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Lettres de Marguerite, &c.</i>, p. 21. </pre> <p> @@ -1160,7 +1155,7 @@ lodging without being asked, and that whenever it pleases the Emperor to see me I shall be found there.” (2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Lettres de Marguerite, &c</i>., p. 197. 2 <i>Captivité de François Ier</i>, p. 358. @@ -1171,7 +1166,7 @@ loftiness of mind on these occasions, and several times won Charles V. himself and the sternest of his Ministers to her opinion. (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Brantôme states that the Emperor was greatly impressed and astonished by her plain speaking. She reproached him for treating Francis so harshly, declaring that this course @@ -1216,7 +1211,7 @@ described by certain historians and romancers evidently rests upon no solid foundation. (4) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Renée, the younger daughter of Louis XII. and Anne of Brittany, subsequently celebrated as Renée of Ferrara. @@ -1252,7 +1247,7 @@ Margaret had no other aim than that of securing an additional hostage in case his treaty with Francis should not be fulfilled. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Captivité de François 1er, &c.</i>, p. 85. 2 Génin’s Notice in the <i>Lettres de Marguerite, &c.</i>, p. @@ -1300,7 +1295,7 @@ am assured here that she has very graceful ways, and is getting prettier than ever Mademoiselle d’Angoulême (1) was.” </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Génin’s <i>Lettres de Marguerite, &c</i>, p. 70. The Mademoiselle d’Angoulême alluded to at the end of the letter is Margaret herself. @@ -1331,7 +1326,7 @@ discovered when the greater part of the day had gone by, and the fugitives were already beyond pursuit. (2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Lettres de Marguerite, &c</i>, p. 31. 2 Olhagaray’s <i>Histoire de Faix, Béarn, Navarre, &c</i>, @@ -1357,11 +1352,11 @@ “there were jousts, tourneying, and great triumph for the space of eight days or thereabouts.” (3) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 He was born at Sanguesa, April 1503, and became King of Navarre in 1517. </pre> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 2 This portrait is at the Bibliothèque Nationale in the <i>Recueil de Portraits au crayon</i> by Clouet, Dumonstier, &c. (fol. 88). @@ -1369,11 +1364,11 @@ 3 <i>Antiquités de Paris</i>, vol. ii. p. 688. </pre> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0007" id="link2H_4_0007"> + <a id="link2H_4_0007"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> III. @@ -1418,7 +1413,7 @@ life in peril rather than to fail in her duty by not accompanying her husband.” (2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. No. 8546 (Béthune), fol. 107. 2 <i>Oraison funèbre</i>, &c, p. 70. @@ -1457,7 +1452,7 @@ out of them, for which reason the King often said that she helped him right well and relieved him of a great deal.” (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>OEuvres de Brantôme</i>, 8vo, vol. v. p. 222. </pre> <p> @@ -1480,7 +1475,7 @@ matters of love, the King took a diamond ring from his finger and wrote on one of the window panes this couplet:— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “Souvent femme varie, Bien fol est qui s’y fie.” (1) </pre> <p> @@ -1493,7 +1488,7 @@ side of one of the deep embrasures, which are still to be seen in the windows of the château. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 “Woman is often fickle, Crazy indeed is he who trusts her.” @@ -1518,7 +1513,7 @@ husband. However, they are both of opinion that the letter does not bear the interpretation which other writers have placed upon it. (3) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 E. Fournier’s <i>L’Esprit dans l’Histoire</i>, Paris, 1860, p. 132 <i>et seq</i>. @@ -1545,7 +1540,7 @@ to give pleasure to a poor wife, big with child, by writing a single word to her.” (3) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Particulars concerning this adventure will be found in the notes to Tale iv., and also in the Appendix to the present volume (C). @@ -1576,7 +1571,7 @@ honest hearts that they will not even for fear of death do base things that honour and conscience blame.” </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Lettres de Marguerite, &c</i>, p. 251. 2 Epilogue of Tale xxxvii. @@ -1602,7 +1597,7 @@ confinements, (2) and on two occasions she was delivered of still-born infants of the female sex. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Gabriel de Minut’s <i>De la Beauté, Discours divers, &c.</i>, Lyons, 1587. p. 74. @@ -1620,7 +1615,7 @@ style with the quaint Bearnese cap, which she had also adopted, set upon her head. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Bibliothèque Nationale, <i>Recueil de Portraits au crayon, &c.</i>, fol. 46. </pre> @@ -1643,7 +1638,7 @@ Marshal de Montmorency she begs for the release of some imprisoned heretic. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 One of these letters, written by her either to Philiberta of Savoy, Duchess of Nemours, or to Charlotte d’Orléans, Duchess of Nemours, both of whom were her aunts, may be thus @@ -1711,7 +1706,7 @@ as John Frotté, John de la Haye and Gabriel Chapuis, were also among Margaret’s retainers. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Livre de Dépenses de Marguerite d’Angoulême</i>. </pre> <p> @@ -1726,7 +1721,7 @@ be arrested and confined in a dungeon at Mont St. Michel, where he perished miserably. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Brunet’s <i>Manual</i>, 4th ed., vol. iii. p. 275. 2 A second edition also appeared at Alençon in the same @@ -1755,7 +1750,7 @@ thoughts, will, and affections towards the great Sun of Justice, God Almighty.” (2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 From the Queen’s <i>Livre de Dépenses</i>, published by M. de la Ferrière, we learn that this MS., with the miniatures and binding, cost Margaret fifty golden crowns. It was formerly @@ -1817,7 +1812,7 @@ styled pastorals, and which she had played by the young ladies of her Court.” (2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>OEuvres de Brantôme</i>, 8vo, vol. vii. p. 567. 2 <i>Ibid.</i>, 8vo, vol. v. p. 219. @@ -1831,7 +1826,7 @@ invariably introduced <i>rondeaux</i> and <i>virelais</i> against the ecclesiastics, especially the monks and village priests.” (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 M. Le Roux de Lincy points out that this statement is exaggerated, for Margaret, instead of turning the whole of the New Testament into verse, merely wrote four Mysteries @@ -1861,7 +1856,7 @@ she transformed the surrounding woods into delightful gardens, pronounced to be the finest then existing in Europe.(3) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Some of the doors and windows of the château are elaborately ornamented in the best style of the Renaissance, whilst the grand staircase, although dating from Margaret’s @@ -1892,7 +1887,7 @@ miniatures adorning a curious manuscript catechism composed for Margaret and now in the Arsenal Library at Paris.(1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Manuscrits théologiques français</i>, No. 60, <i>Initiatoire Instruction en la Religion chrétienne, &c</i>. In one of these miniatures the Saviour is represented carrying the cross, @@ -1940,7 +1935,7 @@ poet, or some other notable and useful author; or else she dictated some meditation which was written down.” (2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Oraison funèbre, &c.</i>, p. 60. 2 <i>Ibid.</i>, p. 68. @@ -1954,7 +1949,7 @@ Henry and his wife. From all the provinces of France labourers were attracted who settled there and improved and fertilised the fields.(1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Vies el Éloges des Dames illustres</i>, vol. ii. p. 272. </pre> <p> @@ -1975,20 +1970,20 @@ Imperialists, the ivy-clad keep, and mutilated bridge over the Gave soon fell into irremediable decay.(1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 M. Paul Perret’s <i>Pyrénées françaises</i>, vol. ii. p. 303. </pre> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0008" id="link2H_4_0008"> + <a id="link2H_4_0008"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> IV. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>Margaret’s attachment to her daughter—Refusal of Jane to marry the Duke of Clevés—Intervention of Margaret—The wedding at Châtelherault and the fall of the Constable de @@ -2024,7 +2019,7 @@ Margaret, her niece,(1) got in it, and contenting herself with scant escort, started from Paris and went as far as Bourg-la-Reine. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 The daughter of Francis I., subsequently Duchess of Savoy. </pre> <p> @@ -2044,7 +2039,7 @@ Bishop of Mende came to announce to her that her daughter was in the way of recovery.” (2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Brantôme’s grandmother. 2 Oraison funèbre, &c, p. 38. @@ -2092,7 +2087,7 @@ Cleves to enter his bride’s bed in the presence of witnesses, so that the marriage should be deemed beyond annulment.(2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Nouvelles Lettres, &c.</i>, p. 176. 2 Henri Martin’s <i>Histoire de France</i>. The marriage, @@ -2117,7 +2112,7 @@ never believe anything save what I believe, and will never take up a religion prejudicial to the State.’” (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>OEuvres de Brantôme</i>, 8vo, vol. v. (<i>Dames illustres</i>), p. 219. </pre> @@ -2149,7 +2144,7 @@ his business for him, “for when one is at the baths one must live like a child without any care.” (3) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>OEuvres de Brantôme</i>, 8vo, vol. v. (<i>Dames illustres</i>), p. 220. @@ -2167,7 +2162,7 @@ have advised her to take “the natural baths,” and hope that she will be cured by the end of May, providing she follows all their prescriptions.(1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 A. de Ruble’s <i>Mariage de Jeanne d’ Albret</i>, Paris, 1877, p. 86, et seq. </pre> @@ -2197,7 +2192,7 @@ stories) down in writing as speedily and skilfully as if they had been dictated to her, if not more so.” (2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Lalanne’s <i>OEuvres de Brantôme</i>, 1875, vol. ii. p. 214. 2 <i>Ibid</i>., vol. viii. p. 226. @@ -2218,7 +2213,7 @@ repose upon, I would give him mine, and would sleep on the floor for the sake of the good news he brought me.” (2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Lettres de Marguerite, &c.</i>, p. 473. 2 <i>OEuvres de Brantôme</i>, 8vo, vol. v. p. 233. @@ -2236,7 +2231,7 @@ she was asleep (he had already been dead fifteen days), (1) she asked the members of her household if they had heard any news of the King. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 Francis I. died March 31, 1547. </pre> <p> @@ -2266,7 +2261,7 @@ de la Marguerite</i>, poems which she had composed at various periods, and which De la Haye probably transcribed at her dictation.(2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Oraison funèbre, &c.</i>, p. 103. 2 Sainte-Marthe states that she would sit with two @@ -2308,7 +2303,7 @@ woman holding in her hand a crown of all sorts of flowers which she showed to her, telling her that she would soon be crowned with it.(1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Oraison funèbre, &c.</i>, p. 104. </pre> <p> @@ -2339,7 +2334,7 @@ primacy, the Bishops being <i>ex-officio</i> presidents of the States of Bearn.(3) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 M. Lalanne, in his edition of Brantôme’s works, maintains that Margaret did not die at Odos, near Tarbes, but at Audaux, near Orthez, basing this contention on the fact that @@ -2374,7 +2369,7 @@ being invited to the Duke of Vendôme’s table, whilst the others were served in different rooms.(2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 <i>Lettres de Marguerite (Pièces justificatives</i>. No. xi.). 2 Bascle de Lagrèze’s <i>Château de Pau, &c.</i> @@ -2393,11 +2388,11 @@ January 1893. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0009" id="link2H_4_0009"> + <a id="link2H_4_0009"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> ON THE HEPTAMERON, @@ -3028,7 +3023,7 @@ Simontault, a cavalier-servant of Parlamente; and Geburon, a knight older and discreeter than the rest of the company except Oisille.(1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 These names have been accommodated to M. Le Roux de Lincy’s orthography, from MS. No. 1512; but for myself I prefer the spellings, especially “Emarsuitte,” more usual in @@ -3262,7 +3257,7 @@ of Marot’s, which some will have, perhaps not impossibly, to refer to Margaret herself— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> En la baisant m’a dit: “Amy sans blasme, Ce seul baiser, qui deux bouches embasme, Les arrhes sont du bien tant espéré,” @@ -3299,7 +3294,7 @@ <p> London, October 1892. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 As I have spoken so strongly of the attempts to identify the personages of the <i>Heptameron</i>, it might seem discourteous not to mention that one of the most @@ -3311,11 +3306,11 @@ that her arguments have converted me.—G. S. </pre> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0010" id="link2H_4_0010"> + <a id="link2H_4_0010"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> <i>DEDICATIONS AND PREFACE</i>, @@ -3335,7 +3330,7 @@ of Arches, Rencaurt, Monrond, and La Chapelle-d’Angylon, Peter Boaistuau surnamed Launay, offers most humble salutation and perpetual obedience.(1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 This dedicatory preface appeared in the first edition of Queen Margaret’s Tales, published by Boaistuau in 1558 under the title of <i>Histoires des Amans Fortunez</i>. The Princess @@ -3415,7 +3410,7 @@ wife, with sad verses and delicate elegies which describe and reveal, her virtues and merits. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 In the French text Boaistuau invariably refers to the author as a personage of the masculine sex, with the evident object of concealing the real authorship of the work. @@ -3443,16 +3438,16 @@ future. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0011" id="link2H_4_0011"> + <a id="link2H_4_0011"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> Peter Boaistuau, surnamed Launay, To the Reader.(1) </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 This notice follows the dedicatory preface in the edition of 1558. </pre> @@ -3486,11 +3481,11 @@ own. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0012" id="link2H_4_0012"> + <a id="link2H_4_0012"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> <i>To the most Illustrious and Virtuous Princess</i>, Madame Jane de Foix, @@ -3521,7 +3516,7 @@ all his other works in Latin or Tuscan, which he esteemed the most serious. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 This preface was inserted in the edition issued in 1559 by Claud Gruget, who gave the title of “<i>Heptameron</i>” to Queen Margaret’s tales. @@ -3568,31 +3563,31 @@ obliged to render you most humble duty. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0013" id="link2H_4_0013"> + <a id="link2H_4_0013"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE HEPTAMERON. </h2> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0003" id="linkimage-0003"> + <a id="linkimage-0003"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/013.jpg" width="100%" alt="013.jpg " /> + <img src="images/013.jpg" alt="013.jpg " style="width: 100%"> </div> <h4> [Prologue: The Story-tellers in the Meadow near The Gave.] </h4> <p> - <a name="link2H_PROL" id="link2H_PROL"> + <a id="link2H_PROL"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> PROLOGUE. @@ -3607,7 +3602,7 @@ the situation or virtue of the said baths, but only to set forth as much as relates to the matter of which I desire to write. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 There are no fewer than twenty-six sources at Cauterets, the waters being either of a sulphureous or a saline character. The mud baths alluded to by Margaret were @@ -3644,7 +3639,7 @@ bridges. But these being only of wood, had been swept away by the turbulence of the water. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 The Basques give the name of Gave to those watercourses which become torrents in certain seasons. The Bearnese Gave, so named because it passes through the territory of the @@ -3667,7 +3662,7 @@ But a widow lady of long experience, named Oisille, resolved to lay aside all fear of bad roads and to betake herself to Our Lady of Serrance.(3) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 3 The Abbey of Our Lady of Serrance, or more correctly Sarrances, in the valley of Aspe, was occupied by monks of the Prémontré Order, who were under the patronage of St. @@ -3748,7 +3743,7 @@ of their way, and on their arrival were kindly received by the Abbot and the monks. The abbey is called St. Savyn.(4) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 4 The Abbey of St. Savin of Tarbes, situated between Argelèz and Pierrefitte, in what was formerly called the county of Lavedan, is stated to have been founded by Charlemagne; and @@ -3810,7 +3805,7 @@ arrived a long time afterwards had made report that the bear had killed all the serving-men. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 5 In two MS. copies of the <i>Heptameron</i> in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, numbered respectively 1520 and 1524, after the words “not with men” there follows “in men there is some @@ -3835,7 +3830,7 @@ Forthwith Hircan and the other gentlemen went to meet him to see what the affair might mean, and perceived two men behind him with drawn swords. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> (7) This church is still in existence. It is mainly in the Romanesque style and almost destitute of ornamentation. There are, however, some antique paintings of St. Savin’s @@ -3910,7 +3905,7 @@ them with wine and abundant victuals,(8) and with willing companions to lead them safely over the mountains. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 8 According to MS. No. 1520 (Bib. Nat., Paris), the Abbot also furnished them with the best horses of Lavedan and good “cappes” of Bearn. The Lavedan horses were renowned for their @@ -3925,7 +3920,7 @@ hypocrite, he showed them as fair a countenance as he could, and took them to see the Lady Oisille and the gentle knight Simontault. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 9 The Kings of Navarre had been Lords of Bearn for two centuries, but Bearn still retained its old customs and had its special government. The Lord of Bearn here referred to @@ -3996,7 +3991,7 @@ sins and the satisfaction of all debts by the gift that He has made us of His love, passion, and merits. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 10 Margaret read a portion of the Scriptures every day, saying that the perusal preserved one “from all sorts of evils and diabolical temptations” (<i>Histoire de Foix, Béarn, @@ -4088,7 +4083,7 @@ he lay, the praise of such illustrious persons would have raised him from the dead. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 11 Margaret here alludes to the French translation of the <i>Decameron</i> made by her secretary, Anthony le Maçon, and first issued in Paris in 1545. Messrs. De Lincy and @@ -4127,7 +4122,7 @@ bed of the Dauphiness,(13) and many other matters of a nature to engross the whole Court, caused the enterprise to be entirely forgotten. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 13 The confinement mentioned here is that of Catherine de Medici, who, after remaining childless during ten years of wedlock, gave birth to a son, afterwards Francis II., in @@ -4154,7 +4149,7 @@ hold this to be a more pleasing gift. If, however, any one can devise some plan more agreeable than mine, I will fall in with his opinion.” </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 14 This passage plainly indicates that the Queen meant to pen a Decameron.—Ed. @@ -4173,7 +4168,7 @@ to her reading for a full hour, then piously heard mass, and afterwards went to dinner at ten o’clock.(16) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 16 At that period ten o’clock was the Court dinner-hour. Fifty years earlier people used to dine at eight in the morning. Louis XII., however, changed the hour of his meals @@ -4208,29 +4203,28 @@ but told Simontault to begin, which he did as presently follows. </p> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0004" id="linkimage-0004"> + <a id="linkimage-0004"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/039a.jpg" width="100%" - alt="039a.jpg Du Mesnil Learns his Mistress’s Infidelity from Her Maid " /> + <img src="images/039a.jpg" alt="039a.jpg Du Mesnil Learns his Mistress’s Infidelity from Her Maid " style="width: 100%"> </div> <h4> [Du Mesnil learns his Mistress’s Infidelity from her Maid] </h4> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0005" id="linkimage-0005"> + <a id="linkimage-0005"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/039.jpg" width="100%" alt="039.jpg Page Image " /> + <img src="images/039.jpg" alt="039.jpg Page Image " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0015" id="link2H_4_0015"> + <a id="link2H_4_0015"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> FIRST DAY. @@ -4240,16 +4234,16 @@ Women to Men and by Men to Women.</i> </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0016" id="link2H_4_0016"> + <a id="link2H_4_0016"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> <i>TALE I</i>. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>The wife of a Proctor, having been pressingly solicited by the Bishop of Sees, took him for her profit, and, being as little satisfied with him as with her husband, found a means @@ -4260,7 +4254,7 @@ with a sorcerer named Gallery; and all this was brought about by the wickedness of his wife</i>.(1) </pre> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 The incidents of this story are historical, and occurred in Alençon and Paris between 1520 and 1525.—L. </pre> @@ -4281,7 +4275,7 @@ the Bishop, but was further led to forget the affection he had always shown in the service of his master and mistress. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 2 The Duke Charles here alluded to is Margaret’s first husband.—Ed. @@ -4321,7 +4315,7 @@ to have some commission intrusted to her husband, so that she might see the son of the Lieutenant, who was named Du Mesnil, at her ease. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 4 This was of course Margaret herself.—Ed 5 Gilles du Mesnil, Lieutenant-General of the presidial @@ -4375,7 +4369,7 @@ therefore begged of him to abide at Argentan,(6) in order that all suspicion might be removed. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 6 Argentan, on the Orne, twenty-six miles from Alençon, had been a distinct viscounty, but at this period it belonged to the duchy of Alençon.—Ed. @@ -4400,7 +4394,7 @@ man or woman ready to say that I have ever spoken of the matter to them, I am here to give them the lie in your presence.” </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 7 The name of Jacobins was given to the monks of the Dominican Order, some of whom had a monastery in the suburbs of Argentan.—Ed. @@ -4504,7 +4498,7 @@ by one of the murderers, and had her conveyed to a brothel in Paris so that her testimony might not be received.(9) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 8 It was still customary to take sanctuary in churches, monasteries, and convents at this date, although but little respect was shown for the refugees, whose hiding-places were @@ -4565,7 +4559,7 @@ Gallery, hoping that by this man’s art he might escape payment of the fifteen hundred crowns to the dead man’s father. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 10 Henry VIII. 11 Francis I. @@ -4594,7 +4588,7 @@ be loved, and this one for Monseigneur Brinon, Chancellor of Alençon.” (14) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 13 This refers to the superstitious practice called <i>envoûtement</i>, which, according to M. Léon de Laborde, was well known in France in 1316, and subsisted until the @@ -4664,7 +4658,7 @@ sorcerer, Gallery. Without constraint or torture they freely confessed their guilt, and their case was made out and laid before the King. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 15 Louise of Savoy. 16 John de la Barre, a favourite of Francis I. See note to @@ -4687,7 +4681,7 @@ husband, continued in her sinful ways even more than before, and at last died in wretchedness. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 17 This passage is explained by Henri Bouché, who states in his <i>Histoire Chronologique de Provence</i> (vol. ii. p. 554), that after Francis I.‘s voyage in captivity to Spain it was @@ -4742,41 +4736,40 @@ to be remembered, I will now relate her history to you.” </p> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0006" id="linkimage-0006"> + <a id="linkimage-0006"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/056.jpg" width="100%" alt="056.jpg Tailpiece " /> + <img src="images/056.jpg" alt="056.jpg Tailpiece " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0007" id="linkimage-0007"> + <a id="linkimage-0007"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/057a.jpg" width="100%" - alt="057a.jpg the Muleteer’s Servant Attacking his Mistress " /> + <img src="images/057a.jpg" alt="057a.jpg the Muleteer’s Servant Attacking his Mistress " style="width: 100%"> </div> <h4> [The Muleteer’s Servant attacking his Mistress] </h4> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0008" id="linkimage-0008"> + <a id="linkimage-0008"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/057.jpg" width="100%" alt="057.jpg Page Image " /> + <img src="images/057.jpg" alt="057.jpg Page Image " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0017" id="link2H_4_0017"> + <a id="link2H_4_0017"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> <i>TALE II.</i> </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>The wife of a muleteer of Amboise chose rather to die cruelly at the hands of her servant than to fall in with his wicked purpose</i>.(1) @@ -4788,7 +4781,7 @@ thither to receive his quarterly payment, whilst his wife remained at Amboise in a lodging beyond the bridges.(2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 The incidents of this story probably took place at Amboise, subsequent, however, to the month of August 1530, when Margaret was confined of her son John.—L. @@ -4810,7 +4803,7 @@ vespers at St. Florentin,(3) the castle church, a long way from the muleteer’s house. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 3 The Church of St. Florentin here mentioned must not be confounded with that of the same name near one of the gates of Amboise. Erected in the tenth century by Foulques Nera of @@ -4869,7 +4862,7 @@ power of speech and strength of body, and was no longer able to make any defence, he ravished her.(4) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 4 Brantôme, in his account of Mary Queen of Scots, quotes this story. After mentioning that the headsman remained alone with the Queen’s decapitated corpse, he adds: “He then @@ -4912,7 +4905,7 @@ occasion to grieve; and his grief was indeed so great that it nearly killed him. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 5 Common people were then buried in shrouds, not in coffins. —Ed. </pre> @@ -4940,7 +4933,7 @@ Book of Life, from which nor death, nor hell, nor sin can blot them out.’” (6) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 6 These are not the exact words of Scripture, but a combination of several passages from the Book of Revelation.—Ed. @@ -4969,40 +4962,40 @@ tale appear. </p> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0009" id="linkimage-0009"> + <a id="linkimage-0009"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/064.jpg" width="100%" alt="064.jpg Tailpiece " /> + <img src="images/064.jpg" alt="064.jpg Tailpiece " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0010" id="linkimage-0010"> + <a id="linkimage-0010"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/065a.jpg" width="100%" alt="065a.jpg the Stags Head " /> + <img src="images/065a.jpg" alt="065a.jpg the Stags Head " style="width: 100%"> </div> <h4> [The King Joking upon the Stag’s Head being A fitting Decoration] </h4> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0011" id="linkimage-0011"> + <a id="linkimage-0011"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/065.jpg" width="100%" alt="065.jpg Page Image " /> + <img src="images/065.jpg" alt="065.jpg Page Image " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0018" id="link2H_4_0018"> + <a id="link2H_4_0018"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> <i>TALE III.</i> </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>The Queen of Naples, being wronged by King Alfonso, her husband, revenged herself with a gentleman whose wife was the King’s mistress; and this intercourse lasted all their @@ -5017,7 +5010,7 @@ pleasant that his perfections induced an old gentleman to give him his daughter in marriage. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 This story is historical. The events occurred at Naples cir. 1450.—L. @@ -5105,7 +5098,7 @@ that her honour, which she regarded more than her conscience, would not suffer.(4) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 4 The edition of 1558 is here followed, the MSS. being rather obscure.—M. </pre> @@ -5128,7 +5121,7 @@ one day while speaking with the Queen (5) to tell her that it moved his pity to see her so little loved by the King. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 5 This was Mary (daughter of Henry III. of Castile), who was married to King Alfonso at Valencia on June 29, 1415. Juan de Mariana, the Spanish historian, records that the ceremony @@ -5255,7 +5248,7 @@ heart of every honourable man in the world, yet you are contemned and forsaken by him for whose sake you have scorned all others.” </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 6 The above sentence being omitted in the MS. followed in this edition, it has been supplied from MS. No. 1520 in the Bibliothèque Nationale.—L. @@ -5276,7 +5269,7 @@ themselves deceived, all four would share in the pleasures that two of them had thought to keep to themselves. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 7 This expression has allusion to the mysteries or religious plays so frequently performed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Mystery of Vengeance, which depicted the @@ -5314,11 +5307,11 @@ Soon afterwards the gentleman, who was no less spirited than the King, caused the following words to be written over the stag’s head:— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “Io porto le corna, ciascun lo vede, Ma tal le porta che no lo crede.” (8) </pre> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 8 “All men may see the horns I’ve got, But one wears horns and knows it not.” </pre> @@ -5377,41 +5370,40 @@ people’s minds that I should fear to offend some who are near of kin.” </p> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0012" id="linkimage-0012"> + <a id="linkimage-0012"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/078.jpg" width="100%" alt="078.jpg Tailpiece " /> + <img src="images/078.jpg" alt="078.jpg Tailpiece " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0013" id="linkimage-0013"> + <a id="linkimage-0013"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/079a.jpg" width="100%" - alt="079a.jpg Hurrying to Her Mistress’s Assistance " /> + <img src="images/079a.jpg" alt="079a.jpg Hurrying to Her Mistress’s Assistance " style="width: 100%"> </div> <h4> [The Princess’s Lady of Honour hurrying to her Mistress’s Assistance] </h4> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0014" id="linkimage-0014"> + <a id="linkimage-0014"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/079.jpg" width="100%" alt="079.jpg Page Image " /> + <img src="images/079.jpg" alt="079.jpg Page Image " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0019" id="link2H_4_0019"> + <a id="link2H_4_0019"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> <i>TALE IV</i>. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>A young gentleman sought to discover whether the offer of an honour-able love would be displeasing to his master’s sister, a lady of the most illustrious lineage in Flanders, @@ -5448,7 +5440,7 @@ a laugh, was minded to try whether the offer of an honourable love would be displeasing to her. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 2 The young prince here mentioned is Francis I., who at this period was between twenty-five and thirty years old. The froward wife is Claude of France (daughter of Louis XII. @@ -5513,7 +5505,7 @@ which opened into a room beneath, that was occupied by the gentleman’s mother.(5) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 4 In most palaces and castles at this period the walls were covered with tapestry and the floors with matting. This remark is necessary to enable one to understand Bonnivet’s @@ -5533,7 +5525,7 @@ to bed, on which occasions he always found reasons for an increase of his affection. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 6 At that period the collation, as the supper was called, was served at seven in the evening, shortly before the curfew.—B. J. @@ -5573,7 +5565,7 @@ in her room; and this old and virtuous woman ran to her mistress in her nightdress. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 7 The lady in question was Blanche de Tournon, daughter of James de Tournon, by Jane de Polignac, and sister of Cardinal de Tournon, Minister of Francis I. She first @@ -5602,7 +5594,7 @@ trickling over his fine shirt, which had now more blood than gold (9) about it, he said— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 8 It is not surprising that the mirror should have been lying on the table. Mirrors were for a long time no larger than our modern hand-glasses. That of Mary de’ Medici, @@ -5686,7 +5678,7 @@ could you. And if you would speak out for your honour’s sake,(10) beware, madam, lest you fall into a mishap like to his own. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 10 In Boaistuau’s edition this passage runs: “Let love and shame do their work, they will know better than you how to torment him; and do this for your honour’s sake. Beware,” @@ -5738,7 +5730,7 @@ feeling some sparks of the flame, though they strive their utmost to escape them. (11) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 11 We here follow MS. No. 1520.—L. </pre> <p> @@ -5779,7 +5771,7 @@ fear of meeting with something still worse, and so he kept his love concealed, patiently enduring the disgrace he had so well deserved.(12) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 12 This story is referred to by Brantôme, both in his <i>Vies des Homines illustres et grands Capitaines français</i>, and in his <i>Vies des Dames galantes</i>. See Appendix to the @@ -5839,41 +5831,40 @@ most often deemed to possess them.” </p> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0015" id="linkimage-0015"> + <a id="linkimage-0015"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/094.jpg" width="100%" alt="094.jpg Tailpiece " /> + <img src="images/094.jpg" alt="094.jpg Tailpiece " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0016" id="linkimage-0016"> + <a id="linkimage-0016"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/095a.jpg" width="100%" - alt="095a.jpg the Boatwoman of Coulon Outwitting The Friars " /> + <img src="images/095a.jpg" alt="095a.jpg the Boatwoman of Coulon Outwitting The Friars " style="width: 100%"> </div> <h4> [The Boatwoman of Coulon outwitting the Friars] </h4> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0017" id="linkimage-0017"> + <a id="linkimage-0017"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/095.jpg" width="100%" alt="095.jpg Page Image " /> + <img src="images/095.jpg" alt="095.jpg Page Image " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0020" id="link2H_4_0020"> + <a id="link2H_4_0020"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> <i>TALE V.</i> </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>Two Grey Friars, when crossing the river at the haven of Coulon, sought to ravish the boatwoman who was taking them over. She, however, being virtuous and Clever, so beguiled @@ -5886,7 +5877,7 @@ At the haven of Coulon,(1) near Nyort, there lived a boatwoman who, day or night, did nothing but convey passengers across the ferry. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 The village of Coulon, in Poitou (department of the Deux- Sèvres), lies within seven miles of Niort, on the Niortaise Sevre, which at this point is extremely wide.—L. @@ -5981,7 +5972,7 @@ Some said, “These good fathers preach chastity to us and then rob our wives of theirs.” (3) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 2 See <i>Genesis</i> iii. 8-10. 3 The editions of 1558 and 1560 here contain this @@ -6007,7 +5998,7 @@ they never afterwards crossed a river without making the sign of the cross and recommending themselves to God.(7) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 4 St. Matthew xxiii. 27. 5 “For every tree is known by his own fruit.”—St. Luke vi. @@ -6036,7 +6027,7 @@ which brings her so much honour if it be well guarded, and so much shame if it be neglected.” </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 8 Boaistuau’s edition of 1558 here contains the following interpolation: “As should be done by those who, having their lives provided for, have no occupation save that of studying @@ -6057,7 +6048,7 @@ other robes than their coarse drugget ones,(9) are truly virtuous when they escape out of their hands.” </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 9 Meaning who have never seen gallants in gay apparel.—Ed. </pre> <p> @@ -6097,41 +6088,40 @@ example, so the vice of another cannot disgrace her. Wherefore, listen.” </p> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0018" id="linkimage-0018"> + <a id="linkimage-0018"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/102.jpg" width="100%" alt="102.jpg Tailpiece " /> + <img src="images/102.jpg" alt="102.jpg Tailpiece " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0019" id="linkimage-0019"> + <a id="linkimage-0019"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/103a.jpg" width="100%" - alt="103a.jpg the Wife’s Ruse to Secure The Escape of Her Lover " /> + <img src="images/103a.jpg" alt="103a.jpg the Wife’s Ruse to Secure The Escape of Her Lover " style="width: 100%"> </div> <h4> [The Wife’s Ruse to secure the Escape of her Lover] </h4> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0020" id="linkimage-0020"> + <a id="linkimage-0020"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/103.jpg" width="100%" alt="103.jpg Page Image " /> + <img src="images/103.jpg" alt="103.jpg Page Image " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0021" id="link2H_4_0021"> + <a id="link2H_4_0021"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> <i>TALE VI</i>. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>An old one-eyed valet in the service of the Duke of Alençon being advised that his wife was in love with a young man, desired to know the truth, and feigned to go away into the @@ -6191,7 +6181,7 @@ delight, for it seemed to me that you had recovered the sight of your eye.” (1) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 This is taken from No. xvi. of the <i>Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles</i>, in which the wife exclaims: “Verily, at the very moment when you knocked, my lord, I was greatly occupied @@ -6226,7 +6216,7 @@ by the intercession of his friends and her own excuses and tears, he was persuaded to return to her again.(2) </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 2 Although Queen Margaret ascribes the foregoing adventure to one of the officers of her husband’s household, and declares that the narrative is quite true, the same subject @@ -6293,41 +6283,40 @@ tell you one of a gentleman who was among my dearest friends.” </p> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0021" id="linkimage-0021"> + <a id="linkimage-0021"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/108.jpg" width="100%" alt="108.jpg Tailpiece " /> + <img src="images/108.jpg" alt="108.jpg Tailpiece " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0022" id="linkimage-0022"> + <a id="linkimage-0022"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/109a.jpg" width="100%" - alt="109.jpg the Merchant Transferring his Caresses from The Daughter to the Mother " /> + <img src="images/109a.jpg" alt="109.jpg the Merchant Transferring his Caresses from The Daughter to the Mother " style="width: 100%"> </div> <h4> [The Merchant transferring his Caresses from the Daughter to the Mother] </h4> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0023" id="linkimage-0023"> + <a id="linkimage-0023"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/109.jpg" width="100%" alt="109.jpg Page Image " /> + <img src="images/109.jpg" alt="109.jpg Page Image " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0022" id="link2H_4_0022"> + <a id="link2H_4_0022"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> <i>TALE VII</i>. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>By the craft and subtlety of a merchant an old woman was deceived and the honour of her daughter saved</i>. </pre> @@ -6397,7 +6386,7 @@ I believe there is none who would watch them more closely or shield them more readily than you.” </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 M. Frank, adopting the generally received opinion that Hircan is King Henry of Navarre, believes this to be an allusion to one of the King’s sisters—Ann, who married the @@ -6437,28 +6426,28 @@ their husbands.” </p> <p> - <a name="linkimage-0024" id="linkimage-0024"> + <a id="linkimage-0024"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/113.jpg" width="100%" alt="113.jpg Tailpiece " /> + <img src="images/113.jpg" alt="113.jpg Tailpiece " style="width: 100%"> </div> <p> - <a name="link2H_APPE" id="link2H_APPE"> + <a id="link2H_APPE"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> APPENDIX. </h2> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0024" id="link2H_4_0024"> + <a id="link2H_4_0024"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> A. (Prologue, Page 31.) @@ -6519,11 +6508,11 @@ fifteenth century.—Ed. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0025" id="link2H_4_0025"> + <a id="link2H_4_0025"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> B. (Tale I., Page 50.) @@ -6551,7 +6540,7 @@ means St. Aignan hoped to induce the said Dumesnil to espouse one of his relatives. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 1 This was in all probability the village of St. Aignan on the Sarthe, between Moulins-la-Marche and Bazoches, and about twenty miles from Alençon. The personage here @@ -6631,7 +6620,7 @@ and accoutred in the said garments, he started from his lodging with one of the said young men. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 2 See <i>ante</i>, p. 24, note 8. 3 The French word is <i>basion</i>, which in the sixteenth @@ -6677,7 +6666,7 @@ happened, said not a word, but recommended himself to God and withdrew into his room, where he found his wife in bed, she having heard nothing. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 4 The <i>en cas</i> was a kind of light supper provided <i>in case</i> one felt hungry at night-time. Most elaborate <i>en cas</i>, consisting of several dishes, were frequently provided for @@ -6720,7 +6709,7 @@ <p> “De Nogent.” </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> It will be seen that the foregoing petition contains various contradictory statements. The closet, for instance, is at first described as being near the room in which St. Aignan @@ -6732,11 +6721,11 @@ the more correct one.—Ed. </pre> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0026" id="link2H_4_0026"> + <a id="link2H_4_0026"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> C. (Tale IV., Page 85.) @@ -6828,9 +6817,9 @@ </p> <p> END OF VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF ENGLISH BIBLIOPHILISTS - <br /> + <br > </p> - <table summary="" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto" cellpadding="4" border="3"> + <table style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; padding: 4px; border: 3px solid;"> <tbody> <tr> <td> @@ -6856,7 +6845,7 @@ </tr> </tbody> </table> - <div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALES OF THE HEPTAMERON, VOL. 1 (OF 5) ***</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 17701 ***</div> </body> </html> |