Adulteress tells her lover how she loves her husband. She thus deceives the spying husband under the bed

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Adulteress tells her lover how she loves her husband. She thus deceives the spying husband under the bed.

Deceptions. · Deceptions connected with adultery. · Adulteress outwits husband. · view the constellation · filed as K1532.1

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Spanish ExemplaKeller
Italian NovellaRotunda.
general Penzer V 108 n. 2
general Bødker Exempler 269 No. 59

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Adulteress tells how she may save her husband's life. Discovering him under the bed, she tells lover that at temple she has learned that her husband is to die soon unless she prevents death by sleeping with a strange man. The husband is satisfied

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