1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: Colson Media book Club, book Club, book Club, book Club, 2 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: book Club, Club Club. Hello, and welcome to Club Club 3 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: Club Club Club, the only book club where you don't 4 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: have to do the reading because I do it for you. 5 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: And if you thought that introduction didn't make much sense, well, 6 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: we're going to read medieval literature to you today. But 7 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 1: I actually think the story we're going to read makes sense. 8 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: I think it's really funny. I think it's a good story. 9 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,279 Speaker 1: This week, we have a funny story for you. This 10 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,239 Speaker 1: is a story from the de Cameron, which is a 11 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: verified ye oldie collection of stories thought to have been 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: written in Italian between thirteen forty eight and thirteen fifty 13 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: three by a guy named Giovanni Boccaccio. The overarching thread 14 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: between these stories, if you haven't seen the there's a 15 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: TV show that gets that a lot of the basic 16 00:00:57,960 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: ideas of it that came out recently. That's pretty good. 17 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: The overarching thread between the tales is that ten young 18 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 1: people are sheltering and quarantine from the Black Death and 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: a piazza outside of Florence and take turns telling each 20 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: other's stories to pass the time each day. One of 21 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 1: them is a pointed monarch, and chooses a topic for 22 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: the day, such as clever replies that save the speaker 23 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: or tricks that women play on men. The De Cameraon 24 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: tackles themes of love, wit, practical jokes, erotics, and life lessons, 25 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: and it covers an awful lot of ground in the 26 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 1: nine hundred pages it spans. And we're going to read 27 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: you the entire thing, from beginning to ect. No wait, no, 28 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: we're not. We're going to read you. One of the 29 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: stories you have probably heard of Dante's Inferno, a long 30 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: Italian epic poem about the speaker descending into Hell and 31 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: how it shaped both the Italian language and our ideas 32 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: about hell. Inferno is actually the first part of three poems, 33 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: the latter two being Purgatory and Paradise, that together are 34 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: called the Divine Comedy. This is, weirdly enough, in contrast 35 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: to the De Cameron, which is often called the human comedy. 36 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: The De Cameron is at its core just about people 37 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: who are trying to live their life and enjoy the 38 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: good time as well they can, which is apt for 39 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 1: a plague story. A lot of stories of this time, 40 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: like Dante's Inferno or the Canterbury Tales, are very focused 41 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: on piety and going to church and submitting to God. 42 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: The de Cameron instead is actually pretty anti clerical, and 43 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: it features a lot of priests behaving poor lean succumbing 44 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: to their human natures. It was even banned by the 45 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: Catholic Church on and off throughout the fifteen hundreds, and 46 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: whom amongst us wasn't banned by the Catholic Church throughout 47 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: the fifteen hundreds. This story today is from the third Day. 48 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: It is the eighth story of that day. Today's theme 49 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: is ruses in courtship, and the narrator of this story 50 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: is a young lady named Loretta, who we don't know 51 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: very much else about, and we just read you the story, right. 52 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: We like to trust our audiences to figure out what's 53 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: going on in the stories we choose. But because this 54 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: story is written in a more archaic sentence structure, I'm 55 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: going to give you a pretty high level view of 56 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: what happens to help you follow. And if you're like, oh, no, spoilers, well, 57 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: there's two overviews in the first couple paragraphs of this story. 58 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: That is a way that people wrote really intentionally back 59 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: when this was written, So it is period accurate for 60 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: me to tell you what happens in this story before 61 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: you hear it. And honestly, there's like some like vowsand 62 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: duists and me se myth sows and stuff in there, 63 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: so you might want to. I needed to know what 64 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: it was about before I read it. All right. You've 65 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: got this guy named Ferrando. He's really shitty to his wife, 66 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: and he is not very intelligent. They go to church 67 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: and they meet the abbot, who the wife confides in 68 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: asking for help. The abbot is very pious in all 69 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: things except women, immediately sees an opportunity. With the wife's help, 70 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: they fake the husband's death by giving him a sleeping 71 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: draft and bury his body. The abbot then redigs up 72 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: the husband's grave, who's still comatose, and locks him inside 73 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 1: a pitch black mausoleum with a monk from the next 74 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: town over, who convinces the husband once he wakes up, 75 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 1: that he has died and gone to purgatory. And being 76 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: not very intelligent and also kind of evil, the husband 77 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 1: believes the guy believes the monk, and this carries on 78 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 1: for six months while the wife and the abbot, who 79 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: is dressed in her husband's clothes, have a very sweet 80 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: and tender affair together. She eventually gets pregnant and they 81 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: decide it's time to get the husband back out of 82 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: the tomb and help raise this baby. They stage a 83 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: resurrection for the husband, and again being stupid and gullible, 84 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: he continues to believe all the things that they claim 85 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: happened to him. But he's learned his lesson from the 86 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 1: quote unquote dying and treats her right now and is 87 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: really sweet to the kid, and the wife gets to 88 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: continue to sleep with the aba abbot on the side, 89 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: because why not anyway, is a fun story. The eighth 90 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: story from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Day the third Forverrondo, 91 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: having swallowed a certain powder, is entombed for dead and 92 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: being taken forth of the sepulcher by the abbot, who 93 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: enjoyeth his wife the while is put in prison and 94 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: given to believe that he is in purgatory, after which, 95 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 1: being raised up again, he reareth for his own a 96 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: child begotten of the Abbot on his wife. The end 97 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 1: being come of Amelia's long story, which had not withal 98 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: for its length been unpleasing to any of the company, nay, 99 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: but was held of all the ladies to have been 100 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: briefly narrated, having regard to the number and diversity of 101 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: the incidents therein recounted, The Queen, having with a mere 102 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 1: sign intimated her pleasure to Loretta, gave her occasion to begin. Thus, 103 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: dearest ladies, there occurreth to me to tell you a 104 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: true story which hath much more semblance of falsehood than 105 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: that which it indeed is, and which hath been recalled 106 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: to my mind by hearing one to have been bewept 107 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: and buried for another. I purpose then to tell you 108 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: how a live man was entombed for dead, and how 109 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: after he and many other folk believed himself to have 110 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: come forth of the sepulcher as one raised from the 111 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: dead by reason, whereof he was adored as a saint, 112 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: who should rather have been condemned as a criminal. There was, then, 113 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: and yet is, in Tuscany, an abbey situate, like as 114 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: we see many thereof, in a place not over much 115 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 1: frequented of men, whereof a monk was made abbot, who 116 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 1: was a very holy man in everything save in the 117 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,359 Speaker 1: matter of women. And in this he contrived to do 118 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: so rarely that well nigh nune not to say new, 119 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 1: but even suspected him thereof for that he was holding 120 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: exceedingly godly and just in everything. It chanced that a 121 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: very wealthy farmer by the name Ferrondo contracted a great 122 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: intimacy with him, A heavy clod pate fellow and dull 123 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: witted beyond measure, whose commerce pleased the Abbot, but for 124 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: that his simplicity whiles afforded him some diversion. And in 125 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: the course of their acquaintance, the latter perceived that Ferrondo 126 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: had a very handsome woman, to wife, of whom he 127 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: became so passionately enamored that he thought of nothing else 128 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: day or night. But hearing that simple and shallow witted 129 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: as Ferrondo was, and everything else he was shrewd enough 130 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: in the matter of loving and guarding his wife, he 131 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: well nigh despaired of her. However, like a very adroit 132 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: man as he was, he wrought on such wares with 133 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: Ferrondo that he came wild with his wife to take 134 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: his pleasance in the abbey garden, and there he very 135 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: demurely entertained them with discourse of a beetude of life 136 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: eternal and of the pious works of many men and 137 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: women of times past, insomuch that the lady was taken 138 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: with a desire to confess herself to him, and asked 139 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: and had Ferrondo's leave thereof, Accordingly to the Abbot's exceeding pleasure, 140 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: she came to confess to him, and seating herself at 141 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: his feet, before she proceeded to say otherwa began thus, Sir, 142 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: if God had given me a right husband, or had 143 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: given me none, it would belike be easy to me, 144 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: with the help of your exhortations, to enter upon the 145 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: road which you say leadeth folk onto life eternal. But I, 146 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: having regard to what Ferrondo is and to his witlessness, 147 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: may style myself a widow. And yet I am married. 148 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 1: Inasmuch as he living, I can have no other husband. 149 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: And dolt as he is, he is without any cause, 150 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: so out of all measure jealous of me, that by 151 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: reason thereof I cannot live with him otherwise than in 152 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:14,199 Speaker 1: tribulation and misery. Wherefore, ere I come to other confession, 153 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 1: I humbly beseech you as most I may, that it 154 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: may please you to give me some counsel concerning this, 155 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: For that and the occasion of my well doing begin, 156 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: not therefrom confession or other good work will profit me little. 157 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: This speech gave the Abbot great satisfaction, and him seemed 158 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: fortune had opened him the way to his chief desire. Wherefore, daughter, 159 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: quoth he, I can well believe that it must be 160 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: a sore a noy for a fair and dainty dame 161 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: such as you are, to have a blockhead to husband, 162 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: but a much greater meseemeth to have a jealous man. 163 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 1: Wherefore you have both the one and the other. I 164 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,719 Speaker 1: can lightly credit that to which you a vouch of 165 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: your life tribulation. But for this, speaking briefly, I see 166 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: neither counsel nor remedy. Save one the witch is that 167 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: Ferrando be cured of this jealousy. The medicine that will 168 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,319 Speaker 1: cure him I know very well how to make, provided 169 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:19,199 Speaker 1: you have the heart to keep secret, that which I 170 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 1: shall tell you. Father mine, answered the lady, have no 171 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: fear of that, for I would like your suffer death 172 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: and tell any that which you had bid me not repeat. 173 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: But how may this be done? Quoth the Abbot, And 174 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: we would have him cured? It behooveth of necessity that 175 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 1: he go to purgatory. But how asked, she can he 176 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: go thither alive? Needs must he die, replied the abbot, 177 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: And so go thither. And when as he shall have 178 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: suffered such penance as shall suffice to purge him of 179 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: his jealousy, we will pray God with certain orisons that 180 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: he restores him to this life, and he will do it. Then, 181 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: said the lady, Am I to become a widow? I 182 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: answered the Abbot, for a certain time wherein you must 183 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: look well. You suffer not yourself to be married again, 184 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: for that God would take an ill part. And when 185 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: as Ferrando returned hither, it would behoove you to return 186 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: to him, and he would then be more jealous than ever, 187 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: quoth she provided. He but be cured of this calamity. 188 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: So it may not behoove me abide in prison all 189 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: my life. I am content do as it pleaseth you, 190 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: and I will do it, rejoined he. But what geared 191 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: on am I to have for such a service, father, 192 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: answered the lady. You shall have whatsoever pleaseth you. So, 193 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 1: but it be in my power. But what could the 194 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: like of me that may befit such a man as yourself, 195 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: Madame replied the abbot. You can do no less for 196 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: me than that which I undertake to do for you, 197 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: for that like as I am disposed to do, that 198 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: which is to be your weal and your solacement. Even so, 199 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: can you do that which will be the saving an 200 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 1: assagnment of my life? Quoth she? And it be so 201 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: I am ready, then, said the abbot. You must give 202 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: me your love and vouchsafe me satisfaction of yourself, for 203 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:35,320 Speaker 1: whom I am all afire with love and languishment. The lady, 204 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 1: hearing this, was all aghast, and answered, a lack father, mine, 205 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 1: what is this you ask? Methought you were a saint? 206 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: Doth it beseem holy men to require women who come 207 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: to them for counsel of such things? 208 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 2: Fair? 209 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: My soul rejoined the abbot, marvel not for that sanctity. 210 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: No wise, a beetteth by this, seeing it hath its 211 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: seat and the soul, and that which I ask of 212 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: you as a sin of the body. But be that 213 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 1: as it may, your ravishing beauty hath such might that 214 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: love constraineth me to do thus? And I tell you 215 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 1: that you may glory in your charms over all other women, 216 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 1: considering that they please holy men who are used to 217 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: look upon the beauties of heaven. Moreover, Abbot, though I be, 218 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: I am a man like another, and am, as you see, 219 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: not yet old. Nor should this that I ask be 220 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: grievous of you to do. Nay, you should rather desire 221 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 1: it for that what while Ferrando, Sir joadith in purgatory, 222 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: I will bury you company by night and render you 223 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: that solacement which He should give you. Nor shall any 224 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: ever come to know of this, for that every one 225 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: believeth of me that and more than that which you 226 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: but now believed of me. Reject not the grace that 227 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: God sendeth you. For there be women enough who covet 228 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 1: that which you may have and shall have, if like 229 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: a wise woman, you hearken to my counsel. Moreover, I 230 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: have fair and precious jewels, which I purpose shall belong 231 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: to none other than yourself. Do then for me, sweet 232 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 1: my hope, that which I willingly do for you. The 233 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: lady hung her head, knowing not how to deny him, 234 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: whilst her seemed it were ill done to grant him 235 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: what he asked. But the abbot, seeing that she hearkened 236 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: and hesitated to reply, and him seeming he had already 237 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: half converted her, followed up his first words with many others, 238 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: and stayed not till he had persuaded her that she 239 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: would do well to comply with him. Accordingly, she said, blushing, 240 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: that she was ready to do his every commandment, but 241 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: might not avail there too, till such time as Ferando 242 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: should be gone to purgatory. Whereupon quoth the Abbot, exceeding 243 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: well pleased, and we will make shift to send him 244 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: thither incontinent, do you but contrive that he come hither 245 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: tomorrow or next day to sojourn with me? So saying, 246 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: he privily put a very handsome ring into her hand 247 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: and dismissed her. The lady rejoiced at the gift, and, 248 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: looking to have others, rejoined her companions, to whom she 249 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: fell to relating marvelous things of the abbot's sanctity, and 250 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: presently returned home with them. And do you know what 251 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: else will return home with you? Sweet sweet deals on 252 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: products and services. They're going to come right on home 253 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: with you, and we're back. A few days after, Ferrando 254 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: repaired to the abbey, whom, when as the abbot's he 255 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: cast about to send him to purgatory. Accordingly, he sought 256 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: out a powder of marvelous virtue, which he had gotten 257 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: in the parts of the leavent of a great prince, 258 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: who have vouched it to be that which was wont 259 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: to be used by the old man of the mountain, 260 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: when as he would fain send anyone sleeping into his 261 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: paradise or bring him forth thereof. And that, according as 262 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: more or less thereof was given without doing any hurt. 263 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: It made him who took it sleep more or less time, 264 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: on such wise that whilst its virtue lasted, none would 265 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 1: say he had life in him. Of this he took 266 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: as much as might suffice to make a man sleep 267 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: three days, and, putting it into a beaker of wine 268 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: that was not yet well cleared, gave it to Ferrando 269 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: to drink in his cell, without the latter suspecting aught, 270 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: after which he carried him into the cloister, and there 271 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: with some of his monks, fell to making sport of 272 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: him in his dunseries. Nor was it long before the 273 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: powder working Rondo was so taken with so sudden and 274 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: overpowering a drowsiness that he slumbered as yet he stood afoot, 275 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: and presently fell down fast asleep. The abbot made a 276 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: show of being concerned at this accident, and letting untrust him, 277 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: caused fetched cold water and cast it in his face, 278 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: and to say many other remedies of his fashion, as 279 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: if he would recall the strayed life and senses from 280 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: the oppression of some fumosity of the stomach, or what 281 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: not like affection that had usurped them. The monks, seeing 282 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 1: that for all this he came not to himself, and 283 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,360 Speaker 1: feeling his pulse, but finding no sign of life in him, 284 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 1: all held it for certain that he was dead. Accordingly, 285 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: they sent to tell his wife and his kin folk, 286 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: who all came thither forthright, and the lady, having bewept 287 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: him awhile with her kinswomen, the Abbot caused lay him 288 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: glad as he was in a tomb, whilst the lady 289 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,640 Speaker 1: returned to her house, and giving out that she meant 290 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 1: never to part from a little son whom she had 291 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 1: by her husband, abode at home and occupied herself with 292 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: the governance of the child and the wealth which had 293 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: been Ferrondo's. Meanwhile, the abbot arose stealthily in the night, 294 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: and with the aid of a Bolonese monk, in whom 295 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: he much trusted, and who was that day come thither 296 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: from Bologna, took up Ferrondo out of the tomb and 297 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: carried him into a vault, in which there was no 298 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 1: light to be seen, and which had been made for 299 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: prison of such of the monks as should make default 300 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: an aught. There they pulled off his garments and clothing 301 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: him in monk fashion, laid him on a truss of straw, 302 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 1: and there left him against he should recover his senses. 303 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 1: While the Bolonese monk, having been instructed by the Abbot 304 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: of that which he had to do without any else, 305 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 1: knowing aught thereof, proceeded to await his coming to himself. 306 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: On the morrow, the Abbot, accompanied by sundry of his monks, 307 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: betook himself by way of visitation to the house of 308 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: the lady, whom he found clad in black and in 309 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 1: great tribulation, and having comforted her awhile he softly required 310 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 1: her for promise. The lady, finding herself free and unhindered 311 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: of Ferrondo or any other, and seeing on his finger 312 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 1: another fine ring, replied that she was ready and appointed 313 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 1: him to come to her that same night. Accordingly night 314 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: come the Abbot, disguised in Ferrondo's clothes, and accompanied by 315 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 1: the monk, his confidante repaired thither to lay with her 316 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: in the utmost delight and pleasance till the morning when 317 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 1: he returned to the abbey. After this he very often 318 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: made the same journey on a like errand, and being 319 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: wiles encountered coming or going of one or another villagers, 320 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: it was believed he was Ferrondo, who went about those 321 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: parts doing penance by reason, whereof many strange stories were 322 00:19:56,600 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: after brooded about among the simple country folk. And this 323 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,919 Speaker 1: was more than once reported to Ferrondo's wife, who well 324 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: knew what it was. As for Ferrondo, when he recovered 325 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: his senses and found himself, he knew not where. The 326 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: Bulonese monk came in to him with a horrible noise, and, 327 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: laying hold of him, gave him a sound drubbing with 328 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: a rod he had in his hand. Ferrondo, weeping and 329 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: crying out, did not but ask where am I, to 330 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: which the monk answered, thou art in purgatory. How cried Ferrondo, 331 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 1: Am I that dead? I? Surtaz said the other, whereupon 332 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,479 Speaker 1: Ferrondo fell to bemoaning himself and his wife, and child, 333 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: saying the hoddest things in the world. Presently, the monk 334 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 1: brought him somewhat of meat and drink, which Ferrondo seen, what, 335 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: cried he do the dead eat? I they do, answered 336 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: the monk, this is what I bring. Thee is what 337 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 1: the woman, thy wife, that was sent this morning to 338 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 1: the church to let say masses for thy soul. And 339 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: God the Lord willeth that it be made over to thee, 340 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 1: quoth Ferrondo. God grants her a good year. I still 341 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: cherished her ear I died, insomuch that I held her 342 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,640 Speaker 1: all night in mine arms, and did not but kiss her. 343 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: And to other thing also I did when I had 344 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: a mind there too. Then, being very sharp set he 345 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,719 Speaker 1: fell to eating and drinking, And him seeing the wine 346 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: was not over, good Lord confound her, quoth he why 347 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: did she not give the priest wine of the cask 348 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: Against the wall. After he had eaten, the monk laid 349 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,479 Speaker 1: hold of him anew and gave him another sound, beating 350 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: with the same rod whereat. Ferrando roared out lustily and said, 351 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: I'll lack. Why dost thou this to me? Quoth the monk, 352 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: Because thus hath God the Lord ordained that it be 353 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: done unto thee twice every day. And for what cause, 354 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: asked Ferrondo, Because answered the monk, thou wast jealous, having 355 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: the best woman in the country to wife. Alas said Ferrondo, 356 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 1: thou sayest sooth ah, and the kindest creature. She was 357 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: sweeter than syrup. But I knew not that God the 358 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 1: Lord held it for ill that a man should be jealous, 359 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 1: else I had not been so, quoth the monk, Thou 360 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: shouldst have bethought thyself of that when as thou wast below, 361 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: and have abended thee thereof, and should'st betide that thou 362 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 1: ever return thither? Look thou so have it in mind 363 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: that which I do unto THEE at this present, that 364 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: thou be never more jealous? What said Ferrando. Do the 365 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: dead ever return thither? I answered the monk, whom God 366 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: willeth Mary, cried Ferrando. And if I ever return thither, 367 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,439 Speaker 1: I will be the best husband in the world. I 368 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: will never beat her nor give her an ill word, 369 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: except it be a net to the wine she sent 370 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: hither this morning, And for that she sent no candles. 371 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 1: So it behooved me to eat in the dark nay, 372 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,959 Speaker 1: said the monk. She sent candles enough, but they were 373 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: all burnt for the masses true, rejoined Ferrando and assuredly, 374 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: and I return thither. I will let her do what 375 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: she will. But tell me who art thou that usest me? 376 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:30,199 Speaker 1: Thus quoth the monk. I am also dead. I was 377 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: of Sardinia, And for that a four time I much commended, 378 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: a master of mine, of being jealous. I have been 379 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: doomed of God to this punishment that I must give 380 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: thee to eat and drink and beat thee thus till 381 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,439 Speaker 1: such time as God shall ordain other What of thee 382 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: and of me? Then said Ferrondo. Is there none here 383 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: other than we? Twain? I answered the monk. There be 384 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: folk by the thousands, but thou canst neither see nor 385 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: hear them, nor they the quoth Ferrondo. And how far 386 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 1: are we from our own countries? A cod replied the other. 387 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,199 Speaker 1: We are distant, thence more miles than we can well 388 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: cack at about faith, rejoined the farmer. That is far enough. 389 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: Me seemeth we must be out of the world, And 390 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: it be so much as all that. And do you 391 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: know what else is out of this world? It's the deals. 392 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 2: That are offered by the sponsors of this show, and 393 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:47,880 Speaker 2: we beck. 394 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,719 Speaker 1: In such and the like discourse was Ferrondo entertained half 395 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: a score months while eating and drinking and beating what 396 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: while the abbot assiduously visited the fair lady without miscarriage 397 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: and gave himself the goodliest time in the world with her. 398 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: At last, as ill luck would have it, the lady 399 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: found herself with child and straightway acquainted the abbot therewith. 400 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: Wherefore it seemed well to them both that Ferrondo should, 401 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: without delay be recalled from purgatory to life and returned 402 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 1: to her, so she might avouch yourself with child by him. Accordingly, 403 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: the Abbot the same night caused call to Ferrondo in 404 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 1: prison with a counterfeit voice, saying, Ferrondo, take comfort, for 405 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 1: it is God's pleasure that thou return to the world, 406 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 1: where thou shalt have a son by thy wife, whom 407 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: look thou named Benedict. For that by the prayers of 408 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,199 Speaker 1: thy holy Abbot and of thy wife, and for the 409 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: love of Saint Benedict, he doth thee this favor. Frondo, 410 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: hearing this, was exceedingly rejoiced and said it liketh me, well, Lord, 411 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: grant me a good year, to signor Lord Almighty, and 412 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 1: to the Abbot and Saint Benedict, and my cheesy, sweet 413 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: honey wife. The Abbot let give him in the wine 414 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: that he sent him so much of the powder aforesaid 415 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,439 Speaker 1: as should cause him to sleep maybe four hours. With 416 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 1: the aid of his monk, having put his own clothes 417 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 1: on him, restored him privily to the tomb wherein he 418 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 1: had been buried. Next morning, at break of day, Ferrondo 419 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: came to himself and a spying light, a thing which 420 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: he had not seen for a good ten months, through 421 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: some crevice of the tomb. Doubted not, but he was 422 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 1: alive again. Accordingly, he fell to bawling out, open to me, 423 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 1: open to me, and heaving so lustily at lid of 424 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,239 Speaker 1: the tomb with his head that he stirred it, for 425 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,679 Speaker 1: that was eathe to move, and had begun to move 426 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 1: it away, when the monks, having now made an end 427 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: of saying Matins, ran thither and knew Ferrondo's voice, and 428 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: saw him an act to come forth of the sepulcher, 429 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 1: whereupon all aghast for the strangeness of the case, they 430 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: took to their heels and ran to the abbot, who 431 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: made a show of rising from prayer, and said, my sons, 432 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 1: have no fear, take the cross in the holy water, 433 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: and follow after me, so we may see that which 434 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: God willeth to show forth to us of his might. 435 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:37,159 Speaker 1: And as he said, so he did. Now Ferando has 436 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: come forth of the sepulcher, all pale as well might 437 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 1: he be, who had so long abidden without seeing the sky. 438 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,199 Speaker 1: As soon as he saw the abbot, he ran to 439 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: cast himself at his feet and said, Father, mine, according 440 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: to that which hath been revealed to me, your prayers 441 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: and those of Saint Benedict and my wife have delivered 442 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: me from the pains of purgatory and restored me to life. 443 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 1: Wherefore I pray God to give you a good year 444 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:08,360 Speaker 1: and good colense. Now and always, quoth the abbot, praised 445 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: be God and his might go my son, since he 446 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: hath sent thee back. Hither, comfort thy wife, who hath 447 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 1: been still in tears, since thou departest this life, and 448 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 1: henceforth be a friend and servant of God. Sir, replied Ferrondo. 449 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 1: So hath it indeed been said to me? Only leave me? 450 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: Do for as soon as I find her, I shall 451 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: bust her, such good will do I bear her. The abbot, 452 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: left alone with his monks, made a great show of 453 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 1: wonderment at this miracle, and caused devoutly singing Misserray. Therefore, 454 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: as for Ferrondo, he returned to his village, where all 455 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: who saw him fled, as men used to do from 456 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: things frightful. But he called them back and a vouched 457 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: himself to be raised up again. His wife, unli likewise, 458 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: feigned to be a dread of him, But after the 459 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 1: folk somewhat reassured anent him and saw that he was 460 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: indeed alive, they questioned him of many things, and he, 461 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: as it were he had returned, wise made answer to all, 462 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: and gave them news of the souls of their kinsfolk, 463 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: making up of his own motion the finest fables in 464 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: the world of the affairs of purgatory, and recounting in 465 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 1: full assembly the revelation made him by the mouth of 466 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: the rangal bragel Ere. He was raised up again. Then 467 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 1: returning to his house and entering again into possession of 468 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 1: his goods, he got his wife, as he thought, with child, 469 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: and by chance it befell that in due time to 470 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: the thinking of the fools who believed that women go 471 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: just nine months with child, the lady gave birth to 472 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: a boy who was called Benedict Ferandi. Verrondo's return and 473 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: his talk well nigh everyone believing him to have risen 474 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,000 Speaker 1: from the dead, added infinitely to the renown of the 475 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 1: Abbot's sanctity, and he himself, as if cured of his 476 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: jealousy by the many beatings he had received. Therefore, thenceforward, 477 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 1: according to the promise made by the Abbot to the lady, 478 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: was no more jealous, whereat she was well pleased and 479 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: lived honestly with him as of her want. Save indeed, 480 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: that when as she conveniently might, she willingly foregathered with 481 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 1: the holy Abbot, who had so well and diligently served 482 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: her in her greatest needs. The end. Hazel, who helps 483 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: pick the stories, has this to say about it. I 484 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: feel like this collection is such a perfect example of 485 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: the more things change, the more things stay the same. 486 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,400 Speaker 1: People are always going to people, and it's really fun 487 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: to read stuff from olden times that treats women with agency, 488 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: priests like their humans with regular desires, and people who 489 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: do bad shit like they're capable of changing while also 490 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 1: getting some good dunks on them in the meantime, old 491 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: timing people having fun is so much fun to me. Anyway, 492 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: I thought that sometimes, like the de Cameeron was written 493 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 1: by people dealing with the fucking plague, and they were like, man, 494 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 1: you know what we need during the plague, We need 495 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: to just like have some funny stories about people fucking. 496 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: I don't know. I also believe we should like confront 497 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: the evils of the world as head on as possible, 498 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: but sometimes you just need to read some weird, old 499 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: clever shit from the Middle Ages. That's how I feel 500 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,440 Speaker 1: about things. So that's what we did. 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