The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10): Containing an hundred pleasant NovelsBoccaccio, Giovanni
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The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10): Containing an hundred pleasant Novels
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Allegories; Frame stories; Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction; Storytelling -- Fiction
Forbeare my Lord, Do you not see, in how weake and feeble condition my
Ladie is, being shaken with so violent a sicknesse? And you Madam, how
kinde and loving soever you are to my Lord, Are you so little carefull
of your health, being but now come forth of your sicke Chamber, to be
ruffled and tumbled in such rough manner? Though such dalliances are
not amisse in you both; being fitter for the private Chamber, then
an open garden, and in the presence of a servant: yet time and place
should alwaies bee respectively considered, for the avoiding of ill
example, and better testimonie of your owne Wisedomes, which ever
should be like your selves. But if so soone, and even in the heate of
a yet turbulent sickenesse, your equall love can admit these kisses
and embraces: your private Lodginges were much more convenient, where
no Servants eye can see such Wantonnesse, nor you be reproved of
indiscretion, for being too publique in your Familiaritie.
Madame _Lydia_, sodainely starting, and turning unto her Husband,
sayde. What doth _Pyrrhus_ prate? Is he well in his wittes? Or is
he franticke? No Madame, replyed _Pyrrhus_, I am not franticke. Are
you so fond as to thinke that I do not see your folly? _Nicostratus_
wondering at his Words, presently answered. Now trust me _Pyrrhus_,
I think thou dreamest. No my Lord, replyed _Pyrrhus_, I dreame not a
jot, neither do you, or my Ladie: but if this Tree could affoord the
like kindnesse to me, as you do to her, there would not a Peare bee
left uppon it. How now _Pyrrhus_? (quoth _Lydia_) this language goeth
beyond our understanding, it seemeth thou knowest not what thou saist.
Beleeve me husband, if I were as well as ever I have bin, I would climb
this tree, to see those idle wonders which hee talketh of: for, while
he continueth thus above, it appeareth, hee can finde no other prattle,
albeit he taketh his marke amisse.
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