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Saffredent, who would gladly have recounted something agreeable to the
company, and above all to one amongst the ladies, said that it was
not for him to speak, seeing that there were others older and better
instructed than himself, who should of right come first. Nevertheless,
since the lot had fallen upon himself, he would rather have done with it
at once, for the more numerous the good speakers before him, the worse
would his own tale appear.
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[Illustration: 065a.jpg The Stags Head]
[The King Joking upon the Stag's Head being A fitting Decoration]
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_TALE III._
_The Queen of Naples, being wronged by King Alfonso, her
husband, revenged herself with a gentleman whose wife was
the King's mistress; and this intercourse lasted all their
lives without the King at any time having suspicion of
it_.(1)
I have often desired, ladies, to be a sharer in the good fortune of the
man whose story I am about to relate to you.
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