Chapter XXXVIII: Giletta of Narbonne

Giletta, a Phisition’s doughter of Narbon, healed the French King of a Fistula, for reward whereof she demaunded Beltramo Counte of Rossiglione to husband. The Counte being maried against his will, for despite fled to Florence and loued another. Giletta his wife, by pollicie founde meanes to lye with her husbande, in place of his louer, and was begotten with childe of two sonnes: which knowen to her husband, he receiued her againe, and afterwards he liued in great honour and felicitie.

[_Source._--Boccaccio, _Decamerone_, giorn. iii., nov. 9.

_Origin._--? Terence _Hecyra_.

_Parallels._--_Mediæval:_ Somadeva _Katha-sarit-sagara_, 29; Von der
Hagen, _Gesammt._ No. 32; Fauche _Tetrade_, ii. No. 6; _Mod.:_ Gipsy
Tale, by F. Miklosich, _Denks. K. Akad._, Wien, xxiii. p. 14.
_Denks. K. Akad._

_Painter._--I. i. 95; II. i. 87; III. i. 157; IV. i. 171.

_Derivates._--The main plot of Shakespeare’s _All’s Well that Ends
Well_ certainly comes from Painter.]