Arriguccio Berlinghieri, _became immeasurably jealous of his Wife_ Simonida, _who fastened a thred about her great toe, for to serve as a signall, when her amourous friend should come to visite her._ Arriguccio _findeth the fallacy, and while he pursueth the amorous friend, shee causeth her Maide to lie in her bed against his returne: whom he beateth extreamly, cutting away the lockes of her haire (thinking he had done all this violence to his Wife_ Simonida:) _and afterward fetcheth her Mother and Brethren, to shame her before them, and so be rid of her. But they finding all his speeches to be false; and reputing him to be a drunken jealous foole; all the blame and disgrace falleth on himselfe._ _The Morall._ Whereby appeareth, that an Husband ought to be very well advised, when he meaneth to discover any wrong offered by his Wife; except he himselfe doe rashly run into all the shame and reproch. The Argument of the Ninth Novell. Lydia, _a Lady of great beauty, birth, and honor, being Wife to_ Nicostratus, _Governor of_ Argos, _falling in love with a Gentleman, named_ Pyrrhus; _was requested by him (as a true testimony of her unfeigned affection) to performe three severall actions of her selfe. She did accomplish them all, and imbraced and kissed_ Pyrrhus _in the presence of_ Nicostratus; _by perswading him, that whatsoever he saw, was meerely false._ _The Morall._ Wherein is declared, that great Lords may sometime be deceived by their wives, as well as men of meaner condition. The Argument of the tenth Novell. _Two Citizens of_ Sienna, _the one named_ Tingoccio Mini, _and 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 told him what strange wonders he had seene in the other world._ _The Morall._ Wherein such men are covertly reprehended, who make no care or conscience at all of those things that should preserve them from sinne. * * * * * THE EIGHTH DAY, Governed under Madame LAURETTA. _Whereon all the Discourses, is, Concerning such Witty deceivings, as have, or may be put in practise, by Wives to their Husbands, Husbands to their Wives, Or one man towards another._ The Argument of the First Novell. Gulfardo _made a match or wager, with the wife of_ Gasparuolo, _for the obtaining of her amorous favour, in regard of a summe of money first to be given her. The money he borrowed of her Husband, and gave it in payment to her, as in case of discharging him from her Husbands debt. After his returne home from_ Geneway, _he told him in the presence of his wife, how hee had payde the whole summe to her, with charge of delivering it to her Husband, which she confessed to be true, albeit greatly against her will._ _The Morall._