The Heptameron - Marguerite de Navarre
translation by P.A. Chilton

Story 8 - A man called Bornet, less faithful to his wife than she to him, wants to sleep with the chambermaid, and tells a friend, who, hoping to share in the spoils, joins in the plot, with the result that the husband goes to bed with his own wife, and unbeknown to both his wife and himself, arranges for his friend to go to bed with her too.

Story 10 - Lady Florida, after the death of her husband, virtuously resists the advances of Amador who seeks to sully her honor, and withdraws to the religious life.

Story 35 - How a lady from Pamplona, thinking that spiritual love carries no dangers, strives to win the consideration of a Franciscan friar, and how her sensible husband without disclosing his knowledge of the matter succeeds in turning her against that which once she most adored, with the result that she devotes herself entirely to him.

Story 56 - A devout lady consults a friar in order to furnish her daughter with a husband, and unwittingly acquires for her a handsome young monk who dines and eats with his wife but returns by day to his monastery, until he is seen by mother and daughter singing mass in the monastery church.

The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
translation by Mark Musa and Peter E. Bondanella

Third Day, First Story - Masetto from Lamporecchio pretends to be a deaf-mute and becomes the gardener for a convent of nuns, who all compete to lie with him.

Fifth Day, Ninth Story - Federigo degli Alberighi loves but is not loved. He spends all the money he has in courtship, and he is left with only a falcon which he gives to his lady to eat when she visits his home, for he has nothing else to give her. Learning of this, she changes her mind, takes him for her husband, and makes him rich.

Seventh Day, Second Story - When her husband returns home, Peronella puts her lover inside a barrel which the husband has sold; she says she has already sold it to someone who is inside checking to see if it is sound. When her lover jumps out of the barrel, he has her husband scrape it and then carry it off to his home for him.

The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
translation by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt

The Miller's Tale - A carpenter's wife and her lover fool the carpenter and an aspiring suitor by using some madcap and bawdy tricks.

The Wife of Bath's Tale - A knight, in order to avoid execution, must determine exactly what it is that women desire the most. In the course of his questioning, he meets an ugly old woman who helps him, and who is transformed into a beautiful and virtuous wife for him after he makes a judicious decision.

The Franklin's Tale - A wife whose husband is away makes a deal she thinks will never occur with an ardent suitor. When the impossible occurs, the husband, wife, and suitor, as well as a clerk in the employ of the suitor, all display remorse, magnanimity, and generosity, and everything turns out well in the end.