Decameron (Day The Sixty Fifth) Lyrics

The Sixth Story Michele Scalza Proveth To Certain Young Men That The Cadgers Of Florence Are The Best Gentlemen Of The World Or The Maremma And Winneth A Supper The ladies ye...Read Full Lyrics

The Ninth Story Guido Cavalcanti With A Pithy Speech Courteously Flouteth Certain Florentine Gentlemen Who Had Taken Him By Surprise The queen, seeing Emilia delivered of her...Read Full Lyrics

The Third Story Fra Rinaldo Lieth With His Gossip And Being Found Of Her Husband Closeted With Her In Her Chamber, They Give Him To Believe That He Was In Act To Conjure Worms F...Read Full Lyrics

The Seventh Story Madam Filippa, Being Found By Her Husband With A Lover Of Hers And Brought To Justice, Delivereth Herself With A Prompt And Pleasant Answer And Causeth Modify ...Read Full Lyrics

The First Story Gianni Lotteringhi Heareth Knock At His Door By Night And Awakeneth His Wife, Who Giveth Him To Believe That It Is A Phantom; Whereupon They Go To Exorcise It Wi...Read Full Lyrics

Here Beginneth the Seventh Day of the Decameron Wherein Under the Governance of Dioneo Is Discoursed of the Tricks Which or for Love or for Their Own Preservation Women Have Hereto...Read Full Lyrics

The ladies laughed immoderately at Martellino's misfortunes narrated by Neifile, as did also the young men and especially Filostrato, whom, for that he sat next Neifile, the queen ...Read Full Lyrics

The Eighth Story Fresco Exhorteth His Niece Not To Mirror Herself In The Glass, If, As She Saith, It Irketh Her To See Disagreeable Folk The story told by Filostrato at first...Read Full Lyrics

Neifile having made an end of her story, which was commended of all, Filomena, by the queen's good pleasure, proceeded to speak thus: "The story told by Neifile bringeth to my mind...Read Full Lyrics

Elisa being now silent, the last burden of the story-telling rested with the queen, who, with womanly grace beginning to speak, said, "Noble damsels, like as in the lucid nights th...Read Full Lyrics