_A Physitians wife laid a Lover of her maids, supposing
him to be dead, in a chest, by reason that
he had drunke water which usually was given to
procure a sleepy entrancing. Two Lombard Usurers,
stealing the chest, in hope of a rich booty, caried
it into their owne house, where afterwardes the
man awaking, was apprehended for a Theefe. The
Chamber-maid to the Physitians wife, going before
the bench of Justice, accuseth her self for putting
the imagined dead body into the chest, whereby
he escaped hanging: and the Theeves which
stole away the chest, were condemned to pay a very
great summe of money._
The Fift day, Governed by Madame
Fiammetta.