Nevertheless
by the intercession of his friends and her own excuses and tears, he was
persuaded to return to her again.(2)
2 Although Queen Margaret ascribes the foregoing adventure
to one of the officers of her husband's household, and
declares that the narrative is quite true, the same subject
had been dealt with by most of the old story-tellers prior
to her time, and Deslongchamps points out the same incidents
even in the early Hindoo fables (see the _Pantcha Tantra_,
book I., fable vi.). A similar tale is to be found in the
_Gesta Romanorum_ (cap. cxxii.), in the _fabliaux_ collected
by Legrand d'Aussy (vol. iv., "De la mauvaise femme"), in P.
Alphonse's _Disciplina Clericalis_ (fab. vii.), in the
_Decameron_ (day vii., story vi.), and in the _Cent
Nouvelles Nouvelles_ (story xvi.). Imitations are also to be
found in Bandello (part i., story xxiii.), Malespini (story
xliv.), Sansovino (_Cento Novelle_), Sabadino (_Novelle_),
Etienne (_Apologiepour Herodote_, ch.
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