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Criticism never stops short nor ever wants for subjects In the midst of society, he was absent from it Regarded almost as an imbecile by the crowd The less of such misfortunes said is best The promises of kings are airy dreams Who only make friends in order to gain voices in their favour Who would wish to reduce Boccaccio to the same modesty as Virgil Wife beautiful, witty and chaste woman, who drove him to despair