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The Pleasant Nights - Volume 1, 11/2012Book Chapter
Of a truth, gracious ladies, there would be no condition sweeter, more delightful, or more happy in all the world than the service of love, were it not for that bitter fruit that springs from sudden jealousy, the foe to gentle Cupid, the betrayer of kindly ladies, the enemy that, day and night, seeks their deaths. This brings to mind a fable in which you’ll understand immediately the hard and piteous fate that befell a gentleman of Athens, who, because of his cold-hearted jealousy, sought to have his wife slain by the sword of justice, but was himself condemned in
