Afterwards, feigning to be tired of her and to have taken another wife, he turns her out of doors in her shift and brings his daughter into the house in guise of his bride but, finding her patient under it all, he brings her home again, and shews her their children, now grown up, and honours her, and causes her to be honoured, as Marchioness.ĮNDED the king's long story, with which all seemed to be very well pleased, quoth Dioneo with a laugh: - "The good man that looked that night to cause the bogey's tail to droop, would scarce have contributed two pennyworth of all the praise you bestow on Messer Torello:" then, witting that it now only remained for him to tell, thus he began:. He has two children by her, both of whom, he causes her to believe, he has put to death. The Marquis of Saluzzo, overborne by the entreaties of his vassals, consents to take a wife, but, being minded to please himself in the choice of her, takes a husbandman's daughter. The Story of Patient Griselda (Analogue of Chaucer's Clerk's Tale)
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