"Judicious ladies, there are those who have said, after reading these tales, that I am all together too fond of you, that it is unseemly for me to take so much delight in entertaining and consoling you, and, what is apparently worse, in singing your praises as I do" (Boccaccio, Decameron, Introduction to the Fourth Day, p. 284).

The Decameron
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