_Pyrrhus_ had quickely brought the Axe, and hewing downe the tree, so soone as the Lady saw it fall; turning her selfe to _Nicostratus_, she said. Now that I have seene mine honour and honesties enemy laid along; mine anger is past, and Husband, I freely pardon you: intreating you heartily henceforward, not to presume or imagine, that my love eyther is, or can bee altred from you. Thus the mocked and derided _Nicostratus_, returned in againe with his Lady and _Pyrrhus_; where perhaps (although the Peare-tree was cut downe) they could find as cunning meanes to over-reach him. _Two Citizens of_ Siena, _the one named_ Tingoccio Mini, _& the other_ Meucio di Tora, _affected both one woman, called_ Monna Mita, _to whom the one of them was a Gossip. The Gossip dyed, and appeared afterward to his companion, according as he had formerly promised him to doe, and tolde him what strange wonders he had seene in the other world._ The Tenth Novell. _Wherein such men are covertly reprehended, who make no care or conscience at all of those things that should preserve them from sinne._ Now there remained none but the King himselfe, last of all to recount his Novell; who, after hee heard the Ladies complaints indifferently pacified, for the rash felling downe of such a precious Peare-tree; thus he began. Faire Ladies, it is a case more then manifest, that every King, who will be accounted just and upright: should first of all, and rather then any other, observe those Lawes which he himselfe hath made; otherwise he ought to be reputed as a servant, worthy of punishment, and no King. Into which fault and reprehension, I your King, shall well neere be constrained to fall; for yesterday I enacted a Law, upon the forme of our discoursing, with full intent, that this day I would not use any part of my priviledge; but being subject (as you all are) to the same Law, I should speake of that argument, which already you have done.