Chapter XVI: The Marchioness of Monferrato

The Marchionesse of Monferrato, with a banket of Hennes, and certaine pleasant wordes, repressed the fond loue of Philip the French Kynge.

[_Source._--Boccaccio, _Decamerone_, giorn. i., nov. 5.

_Origin._--_Seven Wise Masters._

_Parallels._--_Anc._: II. Sam. c. xi. _Med._: Sindibad, and plls.

_Painter._--I. ii. 112; II. ii. 91; III. ii. 180; IV. ii. 338.]