The Nights of Straparola . rse she should adopt in such a calamity—took the young man her lover and carefully stowed him away underthe bed, all bewildered with fear and half dead as he was, and nextmade the fool get up into the chimney and there hide himself Thenshe opened the door straightway to her husband, and, after she hadlavished upon him many amorous caresses, she adroitly begged himto come to bed with her and take his pleasure. And, seeing that itwas now the season of winter, the husband gave order that a fireshould be kindled forthwith, because he felt he had need of
The Nights of Straparola . rse she should adopt in such a calamity—took the young man her lover and carefully stowed him away underthe bed, all bewildered with fear and half dead as he was, and nextmade the fool get up into the chimney and there hide himself Thenshe opened the door straightway to her husband, and, after she hadlavished upon him many amorous caresses, she adroitly begged himto come to bed with her and take his pleasure. And, seeing that itwas now the season of winter, the husband gave order that a fireshould be kindled forthwith, because he felt he had need of the lady caused them to bring wood for the making ofthe same, and she took good care that this wood should not be dryand prompt to burn quickly, but wood of the greenest that could begotten. But the pungent smoke rising from the burning of wood ofthis sort made the eyes of the fool in the chinniey smart acutely, andhe found himself suffocated thereby in such a manner that he could Orig., mandato il furor si/o dii FABLE It.] STRAPAROLA. 2+; hardly draw his breath, and, in spite of all his pfForis to keep quiet,he could not help sneezing. When the husband of the lady heard this noise he peered up thechimney and espied the fellow who was hidden there, and at oncebegan to abuse and to threaten him in good set terms, deeming himto be some lurking robber. But the simpleton cried out, and said: Aha, Signor I you have spied out me, but you have not spied out thegallant who is hidden under the bed there. I, in sooth, have onceenjoyed your w ite, and once only ; but he has befouled your bed athousand times. When he heard these words of the fool, the husbandbecame as it were beside himself with rage, and having lookedunder the bed, he found the lover there, and straightway slew the fool, who had by this time come down from his hiding-place in the chimney, caught up a thick stick and began to cry out atthe top of his voice, saying : You have slain this man, who was
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