Signior Guido Cavalcante, _with a sodaine and witty answere, reprehended the rash folly of certaine Florentine Gentlemen, that thought to scorne and flout him._ _The Morall._ Notably discovering the great difference that is betweene learning and ignorance, upon Judicious apprehension. The Argument of the tenth Novell. _Frier_ Onyon _promised certaine honest people of the Country, to shew them a Feather of the same Phoenix, that was with_ Noah _in his Arke. In sted whereof, he found Coales, which he avouched to be those very coales, wherewith the same Phoenix was roasted._ _The Morall._ Wherein may be observed, what palpable abuses doe many times passe, under the counterfeit Cloake of Religion. * * * * * THE SEAVENTH DAY, Governed under the Regiment of DIONEUS. _Wherein the Discourses are directed, for the discovery of such policies and deceits, as women have used for beguiling of their Husbands, either in respect of their love, or for the prevention of some blame or scandall; escaping without sight, knowledge, or otherwise._ The Argument of the first Novell. John _of_ Lorraine _heard one knocke at his doore in the night time, whereupon he awaked his Wife_ Monna Tessa. _Shee made him beleeve, that it was a Spirit which knocked at the doore, and so they arose, going both together to conjure the Spirit with a charme; and afterwards, they heard no more knocking._ _The Morall._ Reprehending the simplicity of some sottish Husbands: And discovering the wanton subtilties of some women, to compasse their unlawfull desires. The Argument of the second Novell. Peronella _hid a yong man her Friend and Lover, under a great brewing Fat, uppon the sodaine returning home of her Husband; who tolde her, that he had sold the saide Fat, and brought him that bought it, to carry it away._ Peronella _replyed, That shee had formerly solde it unto another, who was now underneath it, to see whether it were whole and sound, or no. Whereupon, he being come forth from under it; shee caused her Husband to make it neate and cleane, and so the last buyer carried it away._ _The Morall._ Wherein is declared, what hard and narrow shifts and distresses, such as be seriously linked in Love, are many times enforced to undergoe: according as their owne wit, and capacity of their surprizers, drive them to extremities. The Argument of the third Novell. _Friar_ Reynard, _falling in love with a Gentlewoman, Wife to a man of good account; found the meanes to become her Gossip. Afterward, he being conferring closely with her in her Chamber, and her Husband comming sodainely thither: she made him beleeve, that he came thither for no other ende; but to cure his God-sonne by a charme, of a dangerous disease which he had by wormes._ _The Morall._