But enough of such talk. Let us now see to whom
Dagoucin will give his vote."
"I give it," he said, "to Longarine."
"You do me a great pleasure," she replied, "for I have read a story that
is worthy to follow yours. Since we are set upon praising the virtuous
patience of ladies, I will show you one more worthy of praise than she
of whom we have just been speaking. And she is the more deserving of
esteem in that she was a city dame, and therefore one of those whose
breeding is less virtuous than that of others."
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[The Lady of Tours questioning her Husband's Mistress]
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_TALE XXXVIII_.
_A towns-woman of Tours returned so much good for all the
evil treatment she had received from her husband, that the
latter forsook the mistress whom he was quietly maintaining,
and returned to his wife_. (1)
1 It is probable that the incidents related in this tale
occurred between 1460 and 1470. They will be found recorded
in the _Menagier de Paris_.
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