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high spirit are more often] dominated by anger and the desire for

revenge than by the [pleasures] of love. The lady in the story was

able to resist these emotions for a long time, but in the end was

overcome by despair. No good woman should let this happen,because, whatever the circumstances, she should not look for an

excuse to act badly. In fact the more excuses she is offered for

doing wrong, the more she should prove her virtue by resisting and

overcoming evil with good, rather than rendering evil for evil -

especially as the wrong one intends to inflict on another person

often rebounds on to oneself. Happy are they in whom God

manifests the virtues of chastity, gentleness, patience and

long-suffering!'

'It seems to me, Longarine,' said Hircan, 'that this lady you've toldus about was moved more by resentment than by love, because if

she'd loved the young gentleman as much as she pretended, she

wouldn't have left him for another man. It follows that she could

reasonably be said to be resentful, bitter, vindictive, stubborn and

fickle!'

'It's easy for you to talk,' said Ennasuite, 'but you don't know how

heart-rending it is to love without having your love returned.'

'True,' he replied, 'because the moment a lady starts to be in the

slightest way cold towards me, I forget all about love and all abouther as well!'

'That may well be so,' said Parlamente, 'for you. All you care

about is your own pleasure. But an honest woman shouldn't leave

her husband in that fashion.'

'However,' said Simontaut, 'the woman in the story completely

forgot she was a woman for a while, for even a man could not have

taken his revenge so well!'

'Because one woman is not virtuous,' said Oisille, 'one should not

think that all others are like her.''All the same,' said Saffredent, 'you are all women. You can

cover yourselves up becomingly with all the finery you like, but the

fact remains that anyone who looks carefully underneath all those

skirts will find that you are all women!'

if we listened to you all day,' said Nomerfide, 'we'd never stop

arguing. But I'm waiting to hear another story, so I'll ask Longarine

if she'll pick the next person to speak.'

Longarine looked at Geburon. 'If you know anything about a

virtuous woman,' she said, 'then will you tell us, please?'

'Since I'm called upon to speak on this subject,' he said, 'I'll tell

you a story about something that happened in Milan.'

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