Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Novel pastimes and merry tales -- From the printer to the reader -- Sonnet -- 1 First tale, by way of preamble -- 2 Of the three fools, Caillette, Triboulet, and Polite -- 3 Of the cantor of Saint Hilary in Poitiers who compared the canons to their stews -- 4 Of the bass of Rheims, cantor, native of Picardy and master of arts -- 5 Of the three newly wed sisters and how each answered her hus- band cleverly on her wedding night -- 6 Of the husband from Picardy who drew his wife away from wanton love by upbraiding her in the presence of her parents -- 7 Of the Norman who picked up some Latin in order to go see the Holy Father in Rome and how he used it -- 8 Of the attorney who sent to the village for a young wench to play with and how his clerk tried her out for him -- 9 Of the man who finished the baby's ear for his neighbor's wife -- 10 Of Fouquet, who made his master, an attorney at the Chiitelet, believe that a man was deaf and made the man believe that the attorney was, and how the attorney avenged himself on Fouquet -- 11 Of a professor of canon law who was so badly hurt by an ox that he did not know in which leg -- 12 Comparison of alchemists to the good woman who was taking a jug full of milk to market -- 13 Of King Solomon, who made the philosopher's stone, and the reason why alchemists cannot succeed in their purpose -- 14 Of the lawyer who spoke Latin to his chambermaid and the clerk who was the go-between -- 15 Of the cardinal of Luxembourg and the good woman who wanted to make a priest out of her son who did not have testes, and how the aforesaid cardinal named himself Phelippot -- 16 Of the man from Paris who was newly married and Beaufort, who found a way to make love to his wife, notwithstanding Madam Pernette's careful watching.

17 Of the High Court lawyer who had his beard taken off tit for tat and the dinner he gave for his friends -- 18 Of Gillet the joiner and how he had his revenge on the greyhound that always came and ate his dinne -- 19 Of the cobbler Blondeau, who was never melancholy but twice in his life and how he took care of it, and his epitaph -- 20 Of the three brothers who narrowly missed being hanged be- cause of their Latin -- 21 Of the young man who made the most of the fine Latin his parish priest had taught him -- 22 Of a priest who did not say anything but Jesus in his Gospel -- 23 Of Master Peter Faifeu, who got boots which did not cost him anything, and the scoffers of La Fleche in Anjou -- 24 Of Master Arnaud, who took an Italian's hackney to Lorraine and returned it nine months later -- 25 Of the counselor and his stableboy, who gave him back his old mule, passing it off as a young one -- 26 Of the scoffers of La Fleche in Anjou and how they were tricked by Picquet with a lamprey -- 27 Of the skittish ass which was frightened whenever a man took off his cap and Saint-Chelaut and CroisC, who put on each other's breeches -- 28 Of Provost Coquillaire, who had poor eyesight and was made to believe by doctors that he could se -- 29 Of the tricks and memorable acts of a fox that belonged to the sheriff of Mayenne-la-JuhC -- 30 Of Master John Pontalais and how he pulled a good one on the bathhouse barber who was a braggart -- 31 Of Mistress Cavernous, who lodged a gentleman roomily -- 32 Of the gentleman who had ridden post-haste and the rooster who could not tread the hens -- 33 Of the priest of Brou and the good tricks he played during his lifetime -- 34 Of the same priest, his chambermaid, the washing he did, and how he entertained his bishop, his horses, and his entire retinue. -- 35 Of the same priest and the carp he bought for his dinner.

36 Of the same priest, who excommunicated everybody in the hole -- 37 Of Teiran, who could not be seen above the pommel of the saddle when he was on his mule -- 38 Of the theologian who condemned dancing, the lady who de- fended it, and the reasons put forth by both sides -- 39 Of the Scot and his wife, who carried on a little too expertly -- 40 Of the priest and the mason who confessed his sins to him -- 41 Of the gentleman who called out to his birds at night and the wagoner who whipped his horses -- 42 Of the good widow who had a petition to submit and how she gave it to a plain counselo -- 43 Of the young girl who did not want a particular husband because he had eaten up his first wife's bac -- 44 Of a great lord's bastard, who was letting himself be hanged un- justly and was angry that he was saved -- 45 Of Lord De Raschault, who went to draw wine, and how the spigot slipped into his pint -- 46 Of the tailor who stole from himself and the gray cloth that he returned to his crony the hosier -- 47 Of the abbot of Saint Ambrose, his monks, and other adven- tures of this abbot -- 48 Of the man who dismissed the same abbot with a cocky remark -- 49 Of Chichouan the drummer, who had his father-in-law summoned for not having died, and the sentence that the judge handed down -- 50 Of the Gascon who gave his father a choice of egg -- 51 Of the treasury clerk whose two dice fell from his writing desk in front of the king -- 52 Of two arguments to make a woman hold her tongue -- 53 The way to become rich -- 54 Of a lady from Orleans who loved a student who pretended to be a little dog at her door and how the big dog chased the little one away -- 55 Of Vaudrey and the tricks he played -- 56 Of Vaudrey and the tricks he played Of the gentleman who cut off a purse snatcher's ear.

57 Of the maid from Toulouse who no longer ate supper and the one who was on a diet -- 58 Of the monk who answered everything in rhymed monosyllables -- 59 Of the law student and the apothecary who taught him medicine -- 60 Of Father John, who climbed on the smith thinking it was his wife -- 61 Of the sentence handed down by the Provost of Brittany, who had John Trubert and his son hanged -- 62 Of the young man who called himself Toinette in order to be received in a religious order of nuns and how he upset the glasses of the abbess who examined him -- 63 Of the professor who fought a fishwife from the Petit Pont with fine insults -- 64 Of the youth from Paris who played the fool in order to enjoy a young widow. and how. wishing to make fun of him. she was put to even greater shame -- 65 Of the schoolboy from Avignon and the old woman who chewed him out -- 66 Of a judge from Aigue.Mortes. a pasquinade. and the Lateran Council -- 67 Of the cavalrymen who were in the home of a village woman -- 68 Of Master Berthaud. who was made to believe he was dead -- 69 Of the man from Poitou who gives directions to travellers -- 70 Of the man from Poitou and the officer who put his cart and oxen in the king's hands -- 71 Of another man from Poitou and his son Mike -- 72 Of the gentleman from Beauce and his dinner -- 73 Of the priest who ate for lunch the entire allowance of the monks of Beaulieu -- 74 Of Jehan DoingC. who changed his name on his father's orders -- 75 Of Janin. who was newly wed -- 76 Of the law student who wanted to practice lecturing and the speech he made at his first lecture -- 77 Of the good drunkard Janicot and his wife Janette -- 78 Of a gentleman who put his tongue in a young lady's mouth while kissing her -- 79 Of the pickpockets and the priest who had sold his wheat -- 80 Of the same pickpockets and Provost La Voulte.

81 Of the same ones again and the cutler whose purse was snatched -- 82 Of the highway robber Cambaire and the answer he gave the High Court -- 83 Of the worth of Monsieur Salzard -- 84 Of two students who took the tailor's scissors -- 85 Of the Franciscan who kept water near him at the table and did not drink any -- 86 Of a lady who had the roosters tended apart from the hens -- 87 Of the magpie and her chicks -- 88 Of an abbot's monkey and an Italian who undertook to make him talk -- 89 Of the monkey who drank the medicine -- 90 Of a husband's invention to avenge himself on his wife -- AUTHOR'S SONNET to his readers -- PART TWO (Tales attributed to Des PCriers) -- 91 Of the rendezvous that Father Itace. pastor of Baignolet. arranged with a good-looking turnip vendor. and what came of it -- 92 Of the ways to collect money in a hurry that a joker gave his king -- 93 Of a thief who wanted to steal his neighbor's cow -- 94 Of a poor villager who found the donkey he had lost through an enema that a doctor had given him -- 95 Of a superstitious doctor who did not want to make merry with his wife except when it rained and the wife's good fortune after his death -- 96 Of a jolly Dutch fellow who made a shoemaker, who had made buskins for him, run after him -- 97 Of the student who leafed through all his books in order to find the meaning of brush, to brush, box, gallows box, etc. -- 98 Of Triboulet, King Francis 1's fool, and his foolish acts -- 99 Of two plaintiffs who were properly plucked by their lawyers -- 100 Of the merry remarks of the man who was being led to the Montfaucon gallows -- 101 Of the wish made by a certain advisor to King Francis I -- 102 Of the student who fell in love with his landlady and how their love turned out.

103 Of the priest who got angry in his pulpit because his colleagues did not carry out their obligation to preach to their parishioners as he did.