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Il Novellino

Note 1 — XXVI Here it is told of a burgher of France

Edward Storer translation

Her husband asked her frequently why she was so aggrieved. And the woman replied: because I am not dressed so that I can be with other women. For at such and such a feast, the other women who were not so fair as I am were looked at, but I was not for my ugly tunic.1

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