Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacci (IL Boccaccio), Vol. 2: Now First Completely Done Into English Prose and Verse
Page dieth suddenly in her arms. What while she and a waiting woman of hers bear him to his own house, they are taken by the officers of justice and carried before the provost, to whom she discovereth how the case standeth. The provost would fain force her, but she suffereth it not and her father, coming to hear of the matter, procureth her to be set at liberty, she being found innocent; whereupon', altogether refusing to abide longer in the world, she becometh a nun.
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