Be of good cheere neighbour _Calandrino_, replyed Doctor _Simon_, I will provide an excellent distilled drinke for you, marvellously pleasing in taste, and of soveraigne vertue, which will resolve all in three mornings, making you as whole and as sound as a Fish newly spawned. But you must have an especiall care afterward, being providently wise, least you fall into the like follies againe. Concerning the preparation of this precious drinke, halfe a dozen of Capons, the very fairest and fattest, I must make use of in the distillation: what other things shall bee imployed beside, you may deliver forty Florines to one of these your honest friends, to see all the necessaries bought, and sent me home to my house. Concerning my businesse, make you no doubt thereof, for I will have all distilled against to morrow, and then doe you drinke a great Glasse full every morning, fresh and fasting next your heart. _Calandrino_ was highly pleased with his words, returning master Doctor infinite thankes, and referring all to his disposing. And having given forty Florines to _Bruno_, with other money beside, to buy the halfe dozen of Capons: he thought himselfe greatly beholding to them all, and protested to requite their kindenesse. Master Doctor being gone home to his house, made ready a bottel of very excellent Hypocrasse, which he sent the next day according to his promise: and _Bruno_ having bought the Capons, with other junkets, fit for the turne, the Phisitian and his merry Companions, fed on them hartely for the givers sake. As for _Calandrino_, he liked his dyet drinke excellently well, quaffing a large Glassefull off three mornings together: afterward Master Doctor and the rest came to see him, and having felt his pulse, the Phisition said. _Calandrino_, thou art now as sound in health, as any man in all _Florence_ can be: thou needest not to keepe within doores any longer, but walke abroad boldly, for all is well and the childe gone. _Calandrino_ arose like a joyfull man, and walked daily through the streets, in the performance of such affaires as belonged to him: and every acquaintance he met withall, he told the condition of his sudden sickenesse; and what a rare cure Master Doctor _Simon_ had wrought on him, delivering him (in three dayes space) of a childe, and without the feeling of any paine. _Bruno, Buffalmaco,_ and _Nello,_ were not a little jocond, for meeting so well with covetous _Calandrino_: but how the Wife liked the folly of her Husband, I leave to the judgement of all good Women. Francesco Fortarigo, _played away all that he had at_ Buonconvento, _and likewise the money of_ Francesco Aniolliero, _being his Master. Then running after him in his shirt, and avouching that hee had robbed him: he caused him to be taken by Pezants of the Country, clothed himselfe in his Masters wearing garments, and (mounted on his horse) rode thence to_ Sienna, _leaving_ Aniolliero _in his shirt, and walked bare-footed._ The fourth Novell.