ill-fortunedly

Updated: May 1, 2025

But for that, whereas men sin in desiring various things, you, gracious ladies, sin, above all, in one, to wit, in wishing to be fair, insomuch that, not content with the charms vouchsafed you by nature, you still with marvellous art study to augment them, it pleaseth me to recount to you how ill-fortunedly fair was a Saracen lady, whom it befell, for her beauty, to be in some four years' space nine times wedded anew.

Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio