Note 264 — Chapter VI · CONVERSATION

Here is an example: “Why, Dagoucin,” says Simontaut, “don’t you yet know that women have neither love nor regret?”—“I don’t yet know it,” he replies, “for I have never dared try for their love, for fear of finding less than I hope for.”—“You live on faith and hope, then,” says Nomerfide, “as the plover lives on wind? You are very easy to feed.” (Heptameron, Tale 32.)