[Transcriber’s Note: This e-text includes characters that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) text readers: Œ œ ẽ ‡ If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. The first seven pages of the printed book have been moved to the end of the e-text, before the Errata. In the primary text, possible errors are noted but not changed. Word-initial “u” and medial “v” are in the original. See end of text for full explanation of [brackets], {braces}, (parentheses) and *asterisks*.] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The *PALACE OF PLEASURE* _Elizabethan Versions of Italian and French Novels_ _from Boccaccio, Bandello, Cinthio, Straparola,_ _Queen Margaret of Navarre,_ _and Others_ Done Into English By WILLIAM PAINTER _Now Again Edited For The Fourth Time_ By JOSEPH JACOBS VOL. I. [Illustration: Publisher’s Device] _London: Published by David Nutt in the Strand_ MDCCCXC Ballantyne Press Ballantyne, Hanson and Co. Edinburgh and London To _EDWARD BURNE-JONES_ TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOLUME I. Page Preface ix Introduction xi Preliminary Matter (From Haslewood) xxxvii Appendix of Documents Relating to Painter liii Analytical Table of Contents of the Whole Work lxiii Index of Novels xcii TOME I.