Maguerite de Navarre's Heptameron: Illustration of the Fifty-eighth Tale.

This tale illustrates a love deception which befalls a misogynist such as Shakespeare's Benedick: "A gentleman, through putting too much trust in the truthfulness of a lady whom he had offended by forsaking her for others just when she was most in love with him, was, by a false tryst, deceived by her, and bemocked by the whole Court. This plan was agreed to with laughter, for there was no gentleman that tormented the ladies more than he did." The illustration shows the foiled lover in disguise being mocked after his failed assignation. Commentators say that the tale concerns Marguerite herself and her lover, Admiral Bonnivet. Bonnivet negotiated the peace and alliance with Henry VIII., and arranged all the preliminaries of the interview known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold (1520). Bonnivet, as mentioned by Marguerite in the Heptameron's story, had the reputation of being one of the handsomest men of his time. Drawing taken from from an English edition of the Heptameron published in 1894 for the Society of English Bibliophilists (with different numbering from modern editions, such as the Pléiade, as the sixty-eighth tale).