Chapter XXXI: Helena of Florence

A wydow called mistresse Helena, wyth whom a scholler was in loue, (shee louing an other) made the same scholler to stande a whole Wynter’s night in the snow to wayte for hir, who afterwardes by a sleyght and pollicie, caused hir in Iuly, to stand vppon a tower starke naked amongs flies and gnats, and in the sunne.

[_Source._--Boccaccio, giorn. viii., nov. 8.

_Origin._--? _Fabliau_, Barbazan, i. 296.

_Painter._--I. ii. 376; II. ii. 307; III. ii. 597; IV. iii. 329.]

[Transcriber’s Note: Question mark in original.]