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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE DELECTABLE NIGHTS OF STRAPAROLA. NIGHT THE FOURTH. THE THIRD FABLE. (') Hncilotto, Ikino of provino, takes to wife tbe baugbter of a baker, anb batb bp ber tbree cbilbren. Zbcec, after sore persecution at tbe banbs of tbe Ring's motber, are mabe Known to tbetr fatber tbrougb tbe strange working of certain water, anb of an apple, anb of a birb. HAVE alway understood, gracious ladies, that man is the noblest and most puissant of all living creatures fashioned by nature, seeing that God hath made him in His own image and similitude and willed that he should rule and not be ruled. Wherefore is it well said that man is the perfect animal, and of greater excellence than any of the others, because all these, not even excepting woman, are subject to him. And so it is that they which by deceit and cunning do compass the death of so noble a creature commit a foul crime. Nor is it any wonder an if such folk, while working for the bane of others do run heedlessly into destruction them ') This * Fable * forms the first of Schmidt's Version. It comes from selves, as did four women I have to tell of, who, in trying to destroy others, were themselves sore deceived and made a wretched end. All this you will readily understand from the fable I purpose to tell you. In Provino, a very famous and royal city, there lived in ancient times three sisters, fair of person, gracious in manners, and courteous in bearing, but of base lineage, being the daughters of a certan Messer Rigo, a baker which did bake bread for other folk in his an Oriental source; it is found in the Thousand and One Nights, and figures, under greater or less modifications, in the German popular Tales collected by Grimm. It reappears also in Scotland, -- Popular Ballads, published by Jamieson, Edinburgh 1806, I. ...
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The Facetious Nights Of Straparola; Volume 1, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Girolamo Morlini
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