Ten noble gentlemen and ladies, who rode the waters, were stuck on the way back due to autumn thaw and attacks by robbers. They find shelter in the monastery and wait for the workers to build a bridge over the spilled river, which should take ten to twelve days. Thinking of how to pass the time, friends turn to Mrs. Uazil, the oldest and most respectable lady from their company, for advice. She advises reading the scriptures. Everyone asks Mrs. Uazil to read them the Scriptures in the mornings aloud, the rest of the time they decide, following the example of the heroes of Boccaccio, to tell different stories in turn and discuss them. Shortly before this, the Dauphin, his wife and Queen Margarita, along with several courtiers, wanted to write a book similar to The Decameron, but not to include a single short story that would not be based on a true incident. Since more important matters distracted the august persons from this intention, the cheerful company decides to carry out their plan and present the august persons with the resulting collection of true stories.

Novella eighth. A young man named Borne from Alle County wanted to cheat on his virtuous wife with a servant. The maid told the lady about the harassment of Borne, and she decided to teach a lesson to a lustful spouse. She told the maid to date him in the dressing room, where it was dark, and came in instead of her. But Borne dedicated his plans to a friend of the maid, and he wanted to visit the maid after him. Borne could not refuse a friend and, having stayed with the imaginary maid for some time, gave up his place to him. A friend had fun with an imaginary maid, sure that her husband had returned to her, and in the morning, and in parting, she removed her wedding ring from her finger. What was Born’s surprise when the next day he saw his wife’s wedding ring on his friend’s finger and realized what a trap he had set up for himself! And the wife, whom he, hoping for some saving misunderstanding, asked where she was doing the ring, dismantled him for lasciviousness, which would make him even "take the goat in a cap for the most beautiful girl in the world." Having finally made sure that he had set his own horns, Borne did not begin to tell his wife that it was not he who came to her the second time and she unwittingly committed a sin. He also asked a friend to be silent, but the secret always becomes apparent, and Borne earned the nickname of a cuckold, although his wife’s reputation did not suffer.

Novella Tenth. The noble young man Amadur fell in love with the daughter of Countess Aranda Florida, who was only twelve years old. She was a very noble family, and he had no hope of marrying her, but he could not stop loving her. To be able to see Florida more often, he married her friend Avanturada and, thanks to his intelligence and courtesy, became his man in the house of Countess Aranda. He learned that Florida loves the son of Enrique of Aragon. To spend more time with her, he spent hours listening to her stories about the son of the Duke of Aragon, diligently melting his feelings for her. And then one day, unable to restrain himself anymore, he confessed to Florida in love. He did not demand any reward for his loyalty and devotion, he simply wanted to preserve Florida's friendship and serve it all his life. Florida was surprised: why should Amadur ask for what he already has? But Amadur explained to her that he was afraid to give himself out with a careless look or word and give rise to gossip, from which Florida's reputation could suffer. Amadur's arguments convinced Florida of his noble intentions, and she calmed down. To avert his eyes, Amadur began to look after the beautiful Polina, and at first Avanturada, and then Florida began to be jealous of her. Amadur went to war, and his wife stayed with Florida, who promised not to be separated from her.

Amadur was captured, where his only joy was the letters of Florida. Mother decided to marry Florida as the Duke of Cardon, and Florida dutifully married the unloved. The son of Enrique of Aragon died, and Florida was very unhappy. Having returned from captivity, Amadur settled in the house of the Duke of Cardon, but soon Avanturada died, and Amadur was embarrassed to live there. He became ill with grief, and Florida came to visit him. Deciding that many years of loyalty deserved a reward, Amadur tried to take control of Florida, but he did not succeed. Virtuous Florida, offended by the encroachment of Amadur on her honor, was disappointed in him and did not want to see him again. Amadur left, but could not accept the thought that he would never see Florida again. He tried to win over her mother, the Countess of Arand, who favored him.

Amadur again went to war and accomplished many feats. Three years later, he made another attempt to conquer Florida - he came to the Countess of Arandsky, whom she was visiting at that time, but Florida again rejected him. Using the nobility of Florida, who did not tell his mother about Amadur's misconduct, he quarreled with his mother and daughter, and Countess Arandskaya had not talked with Florida for seven years. Grenada's war with Spain began. Florida's husband, her brother and Amadur bravely fought with enemies and died a glorious death. Having buried her husband, Florida cut her hair as a nun, “having chosen for her wife the one who saved her from Amadur’s overly passionate love and from the longing that did not leave her in marriage”.

Novella thirty-third. Count Karl of Angouleme was informed that in one of the villages near Cognac there lives a very pious girl who, oddly enough, became pregnant. She assured everyone that she never knew a man and could not understand how this happened. According to her, only the holy spirit could do this. People believed her and worshiped her as a saint.

The priest in this parish was her brother, a stern and middle-aged man who, after this incident, began to keep his sister locked up. The count suspected that there was some kind of fraud, and ordered the chaplain and the judicial official to investigate. At their direction, the priest after the mass publicly asked his sister how she could become pregnant and at the same time remain a virgin. She replied that she did not know, and swore under fear of an eternal damnation that no man came closer to her than her brother. Everyone believed her and calmed down, but when the chaplain and the judicial officer reported this to the count, he thought, suggested that the brother was her seducer, because "Christ has already come to our earth and we should not wait for the second Christ." When the priest was imprisoned, he confessed everything, and after his sister had relieved herself of the burden, both of them were burned at the stake.

Novella forty-fifth. The upholsterer from Tours loved his wife very much, but that did not stop him from caring for other women. And so he was captivated by the servant, however, so that his wife would not have guessed about it, he often scolded the girl aloud for laziness. Before the Day of the Beating of Babies, he told his wife that it was necessary to teach a sloth, but since his wife was too weak and compassionate, he undertook to flog a maid himself. The wife did not mind, and the husband bought the rods and dipped them in brine. When the Day of the Beating of the Babies arrived, the upholsterer got up early, went up to the maid and really arranged for her to be “beaten,” but not at all what the wife was thinking. Then he went down to his wife and told her that the wretch would remember for a long time how he had taught her a lesson. The maid complained to the landlady that her husband didn’t do well to her, but the wife of the upholsterer thought that the servant meant spanking, and said that the upholsterer did this with her knowledge and consent. The servant, seeing that the mistress approves of her husband’s behavior, decided that, apparently, this wasn’t such a sin, because she was done at the instigation of the one whom she considered a model of virtue. She no longer resisted the owner’s harassment and no longer cried after the “beating of babies”.

And one day in the winter, the upholsterer brought the maid in the garden in the same shirt in the morning and began to make love to her. A neighbor saw them through the window and decided to tell the deceived wife about everything. But the upholsterer noticed in time that the neighbor was watching them, and decided to outwit her. He entered the house, woke his wife, and led her out into the garden in one shirt, before taking the maid out. Having amused himself with his wife right in the snow, he returned to the house and fell asleep. In the morning at the church, a neighbor told the wife of the upholsterer what scene she had seen from the window, and advised her to dismiss the shameless maid. In response, the wife of the upholsterer began to assure her that she, and not the maid, was amusing herself with her husband in the garden: after all, husbands had to be appeased - so she did not refuse her husband such an innocent request. At home, the wife of the upholsterer conveyed to her husband all her conversation with a neighbor and, not suspecting her husband for a moment, continued to live in peace and harmony with him.

Short story sixty-second. One lady wanted to entertain another with an entertaining story and began to tell her own love affair, pretending that it was not about her, but about some unknown lady. She told how one young nobleman fell in love with his neighbor’s wife and for several years sought her reciprocity, but to no avail, because although his neighbor was old and his wife was young, she was virtuous and faithful to her husband. Desperate to persuade the young woman to treason, the nobleman decided to take her power. Once, when the lady’s husband was away, he entered her house at dawn and threw herself on her bed, dressed, not even taking off her boot with spurs. Waking up, the lady was terribly afraid, but, no matter how hard she tried to reason, he did not want to listen and took control of her power, threatening that if she told anyone about this, he would publicly announce what she sent for him. The lady was in such fear that she did not even dare to call for help. After a while, having heard that the maids were coming, the young man jumped out of bed to escape, but in a hurry caught his spur on the blanket and dragged him to the floor, leaving the lady lying completely naked. And although the narrator allegedly spoke of another lady, she could not resist and exclaimed: "You will not believe how surprised I was when I saw that I was completely naked." The listener burst out laughing and said: “Well, as I see it, you know how to tell entertaining stories!” The unlucky narrator tried to justify herself and defend her honor, but this honor was no longer in sight.

Novelty seventy-first. The Shornik from Amboise, seeing that his beloved wife was dying, was so grieved that the compassionate servant began to console him, so successfully that he, right in front of the dying wife, threw her onto the bed and began to caress her. Unable to bear such indecency, the wife of a saddler, who had not been able to utter a word for two days, cried out: “No! Not! Not! I'm not dead yet! ” - and burst into desperate abuse. Anger cleared her throat, and she began to recover, "and never since then has she had to reproach her husband that he loves her little."

At the beginning of the eighth day, the narrative breaks off.