9.2 In this slightly comical story, an abbess who is with her own lover goes off to catch another nun who is with a lover. In her haste, the nun accidentally garbs herself in the clothing of her lover, and goes off to stop the other nun. When the other nun catches sight of the abbess, she makes a comical statement which calls out the abbess. When the abbess realizes that the other nun knows what she did, she allows the nun to continue seeing her lover without penalty. The other nuns see this and are actually enraged by this and become jealous that she is innocent. The other nuns do not actually grasp the idea that abbess was with a man, they only think that the nun got away with it. They envy the fact that she got away, and that she actually has a lover to be with.
9.3 In this extremely hilarious story a man is made to believe that he is actually pregnant with the child rather than his own wife. Although his friends are completely aware of the joke they are playing on him, they show no care to the well being of the wife who is suffering as result of this. Although the wife is not really to blame for what is happening in this story, she is blamed and the husband then proceeds to get angered and enraged at her. Boccaccio is trying to show how woman are always blamed the scapegoats to the situations that happen badly to men in the world. I think that he is criticizing the fact that men always blame woman for any problem that occurs.
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