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Ounces an hundred of fine gold have I: Him would I give the whole, Ay, and a kiss to boot, so he were fain. This stanza is defective in the original. The "oncia" was a Sicilian gold coin worth rather more than a zecchino. Andreuola loves Gabriotto: she tells him a dream that she has had; he tells her a dream of his own, and dies suddenly in her arms.
A triple purpose was thus served, the Venetian merchants were protected in their lives and goods, the national honor was saved from insult, and many an honest zecchino was turned by the innkeepers and others who lodged and entertained the customers of the merchants.
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