The Story Eight, from the Heptameron, was told by a lady named Longarine to a group of people stuck on the side of the road. The tale exposed a husband’s deceitful intentions to his adoring wife and ended with, “the husband was branded as a cuckold without his wife having done a single thing to disgrace herself.” (1645) After the fable was completed two names were mentioned by the listeners, “Ladies, it strikes me that if all the men who offend their wives like that got a punishment like that, then Hircan and Saffredent ought to be feeling a bit nervous.” (1645) This sentence alone makes the reader assume that Longarine told that particular story because she knew that Hircan and Saffredent were unfaith to their wives. She even admitted that…
