this one’s eh
skip it

it follows a physicians daughter, Helena, and a lords son, Bertram. the physician and the lord dies. helena is in love with the bertram but is below his ranking and schemes to marry him. the king of france is i’ll so she goes to him and makes a bargain. if she can heal the king he will allow her to marry anyone no matter their status. Helena does and chooses Bertram but he is very upset by this. he marries her legally in the court since the king demands it but then he refuses to seal the marriage by bedding her and instead runs off to italy to become a soldier. She follows with another scheme. He is courting a lady named Diana. Helena happens to find Diana and they scheme. Diana will get Bertrams ring and agree to sleep with him. But instead Helena will sleep with him and take his ring. Then they will be truly wed. 

honestly bertram sucks and helena is manipulative. also there’s a lot of discourse in virginity in this one which was boring and outdated