Of the foregoing, says M. de Montaiglon, Margaret could only have been acquainted with the _Decameron_, the _Cent Nouvelles_, and Poggio’s _Facetio_, which had been translated into French by Tardix (see Nos. cv. and ex. of that translation). A similar story in Latin verse is also contained in a fourteenth century MS. at Monte Cassino. See _I codici e le arti a Monte Cassino_, by D. Andrea Caravita (vol. ii. p. 289). Since Margaret’s time stories of the same character have appeared in the following works:-- Melander’s _Jocondia_ (p. 298). Phil. Béroalde’s _Contes Latins_ (see _Poggii Imitationes_, Noel’s éd., vol. ii. p. 245). Guicciardini’s _Hore di Recreazione_ (p. 103). J. Bouchet’s _Serées_ (No. 8; Roybet’s éd., vol. ii. p. 115). Gabrielle Chapuys’ _Facétieuses Journées_ (p. 213). La Fontaine’s _Contes_ (book v., No. viii.:_ Les Quiproquo_). _Le Passe-Temps Agréable_ (p. 27). Moreover, a song written on the same subject will be found, says M. de Lincy, on folio 44 of the _Premier Recueil de toutes les chansons nouvelles_ (Troyes, Nicholas du Ruau, 1590). It is there called “The facetious and recreative story of a certain labourer of a village near Paris, who, thinking that he was enjoying his servant, lay with his wife.” This song was reprinted in various other collections of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. B (Tale XL (B.), Page 95.) An anecdote in keeping with this story will be found in Brantôme’s miscellaneous works (Petitot’s éd., vol. viii. pp. 382-4). The author of _Les Dames Galantes_, after alluding to his aunt Louise de Bourdeille--who was brought up at Court by Anne of Brittany--proceeds to say:--