belabourings

Updated: May 19, 2025

Then said I: 'O my lord, I pray you pardon me. Whereto he answered: 'I pardon thee on condition that thou go to her, with what speed thou mayst, and obtain her pardon, which if she accord thee not, I shall come back hither and give thee belabourings enough with my cudgel to make thee a sad man for the rest of thy days. What more he said, I dare not tell you, unless you first pardon me."

Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron, Volume I