Isnardo, Count of Rousillon, being sickly, kept in his house a physician named Gerardo of Nerbona.  The Count had a son named Beltramo, and the physician a daughter named Giletta, who were brought up together.  The Count dying, his son was left in the care of the King and sent to Paris.  The physician also dying some while after, his daughter, who had loved the young Count so long that she knew not when her love began, sought occasion of going to Paris, that she might see him; but, being diligently looked to by her kinsfolk, because she was rich and had many suitors, she could not see her way clear.  Now the King had a swelling on his breast, which through ill treatment was grown to a fistula; and, having tried all the best physicians and being only rendered worse by their efforts, he resolved to take no further counsel or help.  Giletta, hearing of this, was very glad, as it suggested an apt reason for visiting Paris, and offered a chance of compassing her secret and cherished wish.  Arming herself with such knowledge in the healing art as she had gathered from her father, she rode to Paris and repaired to the King, praying him to show her his disease.  He consenting, as soon as she saw it she told him that, if he pleased, she would within eight days make him whole.  He asked how it was possible for her, being a young woman, to do that which the best physicians in the world could not; and, thanking her for her good-will, said he was resolved to try no more remedies.  She begged him not to despise her knowledge because she was a young woman, assuring him that she ministered physic by the help of God, and with the cunning of Master Gerardo of Nerbona, who was her father.  The King, hearing this, and thinking that peradventure she was sent of God, asked what might follow, if she caused him to break his resolution, and did not heal him.  She said, “Let me be kept in what guard you list, and if I do not heal you let me be burnt; but, if I do, what recompense shall I have?” He answered that, since she was a maiden, he would bestow her in marriage upon a gentleman of right good worship and estimation.  To this she agreed, on condition that she might have such a husband as herself should ask, without presumption to any member of his family; which he readily granted.  This done, she set about her task, and before the eight days were passed he was entirely well; whereupon he told her she deserved such a husband as herself should choose, and she declared her choice of Beltramo, saying she had loved him from her childhood.  The King was very loth to grant him to her; but, because he would not break his promise, he had him called forth, and told him what had been done.  The Count, thinking her stock unsuitable to his nobility, disdainfully said, “Will you, then, sir, give me a physician to wife?” The King pressing him to comply, he answered, “Sire, you may take from me all that I have, and give my person to whom you please, because I am your subject; but I assure you I shall never be contented with that