sicofante's

Updated: May 5, 2025

Then, turning again to the queen, "Madam," quoth she, "this fellow would teach me, forsooth, to know Sicofante's wife and neither more nor less than as if I had not been familiar with her, would fain give me to believe that, the first night her husband lay with her, Squire Maul made his entry into Black Hill by force and with effusion of blood; and I say that it is not true; nay, he entered there in peace and to the great contentment of those within.

Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio