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“What? a door, yet privy to lewdness? You, from your owner's gate never a minute away?” Gaius Valerius Catullus (translated by Robinson Ellis), The Poems and Fragments of Catullus · observation
“Wherefore, being ready for action, doffed the cloak and handed it to her.” Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Volume II · observation
“Tis not always well to believe everything that a priest says.” Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Volume II · precept
“Do not drive them out of their houses nor let them go forth unless they commit open immorality.” Ali, Abdullah Yusuf; Pickthall, Marmaduke William; Shakir, M. H., Three translations of the Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by · precept
“Allah does not lay on any soul a burden except to the extent to which He has granted it; Allah brings about ease after difficulty.” Ali, Abdullah Yusuf; Pickthall, Marmaduke William; Shakir, M. H., Three translations of the Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by · insight
“but also cause him to be put to death, or else to be famished for lacke of sustenance” Apuleius, The Golden Asse · observation
“I wish all those women who consent to the disposing their children out of the way, as it is called, for decency sake, would consider that ’tis only a contrived method for murder; that is to say, a-killing their children with safety.” Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flan · insight
“Since this care is needful to the life of children, to neglect them is to murder them; again, to give them up to be managed by those people who have none of that needful affection placed by nature in them, is to neglect them in the highest degree; nay, in some it goes farther, and is a neglect in order to their being lost; so that ’tis even an intentional murder, whether the child lives or dies.” Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flan · insight
“Thus, you see, having committed a crime once is a sad handle to the committing of it again; whereas all the regret and reflections wear off when the temptation renews itself.” Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flan · insight
“No blame attacheth to the prophet where God hath given him a permission.” G. Margoliouth (George), The Koran (Al-Qur'an) · insight
“First, then, representative, like any other government, must be unsuitable in any case in which it can not permanently subsist,—i.e., in which it does not fulfill the three fundamental conditions enumerated in the first chapter.” John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government · insight
“I had rather be the father of Phoebe than of Julia.” Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus · insight
Within Sura IV’s marriage and family law, the text forbids inheriting wives against will, restricts remarriage and prohibited relatives, permits slave marriage with conditions, and mandates penalties for unlawful sex.
old sent we Noah and Abraham, and on their seed conferred the gift of prophecy, and the Book; and some of them we guided aright; but many were evil doers. Then we caused our apostles to follow in their footsteps; and we caused Jesus the son of Mary to follow them; and we gave him the Evangel,10 and we put into the hearts of those who followed him kindness and compassion: but as to the monastic life, they invented it…
It provides background notes for commentators on prior revelations and then begins Sura LXV, ‘Divorce,’ giving rules for divorcing women at proper times, recording waiting periods, and handling remarriage.
What took place in the times of ignorance, previous to the revelation of the Koran. See Freytag's Einl. p. 201, as to the incestuous nature of the ante-Islamitic Arabian marriages. 6 By marrying without means adequate to the support of a free wife, or by remaining single. 7 From marrying slaves. 8 Games of chance, usury, etc. 9 By providing for them a home and the protection of a husband. Or, of that which God wo…
The passage continues Sura XXXIII with rulings on the Prophet’s household and wives, protections for believers, disputes about adopted sons and marriage, and guidance on obedience and punishment for wrongdoing.
there among the faithful who made good what they had promised to God. Some have fulfilled their course, and others await its fulfilment, and have not been changelings who change- That God may reward the faithful for their faithfulness, and may punish the hypocrites, if He so please, or be turned unto them: for God is Forgiving, Merciful. And God drove back the infidels in their wrath; they won no advantage; God suf…
Telemachus replies to Minerva that Ulysses has vanished and left him with only grief, while Ithacan and island chiefs consume his estate by pressuring Penelope to remarry.
of his own? And the guests—how atrociously they are behaving; what riot they make over the whole house; it is enough to disgust any respectable person who comes near them.” “Sir,” said Telemachus, “as regards your question, so long as my father was here it was well with us and with the house, but the gods in their displeasure have willed it otherwise, and have hidden him away more closely than mortal man was ever ye…
Demodocus sings of Ares and Aphrodite in the house of Hephaestus, caught in a crafted net by Helios’s report, with Zeus’s divine world watching the exposed lovers.
seamanship, and speed of foot, and in the dance and song. And let one go quickly, and fetch for Demodocus the loud lyre which is lying somewhere in our halls.” So spake Alcinous the godlike, and the henchman rose to bear the hollow lyre from the king’s palace. Then stood up nine chosen men in all, the judges of the people, who were wont to order all things in the lists aright. So they levelled the place for the danc…
Divorce procedures require a bill and prevent remarriage to the first husband after a second marriage, along with a one-year exemption for newlyweds, pledge limits, anti-theft penalties, leprosy observance, fair lending, and gleaning for the poor.
When a man hath taken a wife and married her, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath spied some uncleanness in her: Then let him write her a bill of divorcement and put it in her hand and send her out of his house. If when she is departed out of his house, she go and be another man's wife and the second husband hate her and write her a letter of divorcement and put it in her hand and send her out of his h…
Jesus teaches childlike entry into the kingdom, warns against causing others to sin, and gives instructions for correcting a brother, prayer agreement, and forgiveness; then he teaches divorce law and blesses children.
The .xviij. Chapter. The same time the disciples came to Iesus saying: who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? Iesus called a child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said: Verily I say unto you, except ye turn, and become as children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven: whosoever therefore: shall submit himself: as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whosoever rec…
Jesus continues with parables and teachings about forgiveness, then moves from Galilee to Judea beyond the Jordan; he debates Pharisees about lawful divorce and answers questions about chastity, marriage, and eternal life.
besought him saying: Sir, give me respite, and I will pay it every whit. Then had the lord pity on that servant, and lowsed him, and forgave him the debt. The same servant went out and found one of his fellows, which ought him an hundred pence. And laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying: pay that thou owest. And his fellow fell down, and besought him, saying: have patience with me, and I will pay thee…
Jesus warns against causing believers’ harm and insists on radical self-removal for wrongdoing, teaches about salt and peace, then moves into Judea beyond the Jordan to debate divorce, blesses children, and instructs the rich man about selling possessions and following him.
shall give you a cup of water to drink for my name's sake because ye are belonging to Christe, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward. And whosoever shall hurt one of these little ones, that believe in me, it were better for him, that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were cast into the sea. And if thy hand offend thee, cut him off. It is better for thee, to enter into life maimed, tha…
It gives divorce regulations: divorcing women at specific periods, keeping them in their houses, setting and observing waiting times, supporting pregnant women and nursing arrangements, and warns against severe punishment for disobedience.
transgresseth the precept of God, assuredly imperilleth his own self. Thou knowest not whether, after this, God may not cause something new to occur which may bring you together again. And when they have reached their set time, then either keep them with kindness, or in kindness part from them. And take upright witnesses from among you, and bear witness as unto God. This is a caution for him who believeth in God and…
Qur’anic emphasis on Muhammad as the Apostle and seal of the prophets is followed by instructions for frequent remembrance, greetings of peace, authority of divine revelation, and regulations for divorce before consummation and the Prophet’s marital privileges.
to the prophet where God hath given him a permission. Such was the way of God with those prophets who flourished before thee; for God's behest is a fixed decree– Who fulfilled the mission with which God had charged them,19 and feared Him, and feared none but God. And God taketh a sufficient account. Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but he is the Apostle of God, and the seal of the prophets: and God …
Sura 58 “She Who PLEADED” reports God hearing Khaula’s complaint against her husband and commands expiation for revoking and resuming such divorce formulas, then shifts into rules for believers’ faith and conduct toward God and the Apostle.
Apostle shall be brought low, as those who were before them were brought low. And now have we sent down demonstrative signs: and, for the Infidels is a shameful chastisement. On the day when God shall raise them all to life, and shall tell them of their doings. God hath taken count of them, though they have forgotten them! and God is witness over all things. Dost thou not see that God knoweth all that is in the Hea…
Lycurgus promotes controlled reproduction through shared, state-directed childbearing, claims adultery is effectively unknown, and tells of Geradas answering a stranger’s hypothetical about offenders.
the women of Lacedaemon were the only women of the world who could rule men; "With good reason," she said, "for we are the only women who bring forth men." These public processions of the maidens, and their appearing naked in their exercises and dancings, were incitements to marriage, operating upon the young with the rigor and certainty, as Plato says, of love, if not of mathematics. But besides all this, to promo…
After reading Luscinda’s warning, Cardenio rushes home that same day, finds her at the grating, and she reveals she is in bridal dress and has a dagger to prevent forced violence.
or not. God grant this may come to your hand before mine shall be forced to link itself with his who keeps so ill the faith that he has pledged. “Such, in brief, were the words of the letter, words that made me set out at once without waiting any longer for reply or money; for I now saw clearly that it was not the purchase of horses but of his own pleasure that had made Don Fernando send me to his brother. The exasp…
Cervantes shifts to the embedded novel’s plot: Anselmo trusts Camilla’s virtue while Leonela pursues an affair until Leonela admits to Anselmo that a man escaped through the window and claims to be her husband.
read. Dorothea and the others begged him to finish it, and he, as he was willing to please them, and enjoyed reading it himself, continued the tale in these words: The result was, that from the confidence Anselmo felt in Camilla’s virtue, he lived happy and free from anxiety, and Camilla purposely looked coldly on Lothario, that Anselmo might suppose her feelings towards him to be the opposite of what they were; and…
Camilla flees with jewels to Lothario, Leonela later escapes from confinement, Anselmo finds Camilla and Lothario gone, and he rides off in despair after locking his house.
Camilla, and tell her, as he did, all that had passed between him and her handmaid, and the promise she had given him to inform him matters of serious importance. There is no need of saying whether Camilla was agitated or not, for so great was her fear and dismay, that, making sure, as she had good reason to do, that Leonela would tell Anselmo all she knew of her faithlessness, she had not the courage to wait and se…
The wedding procession arrives with the bride Quiteria, who is praised for her jewelry and fine attire; behind them Basilio interrupts, drives a spike into the ground, and reveals he will kill himself over Quiteria.
IN WHICH CAMACHO’S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS p21a.jpg (118K) Full Size While Don Quixote and Sancho were engaged in the discussion set forth the last chapter, they heard loud shouts and a great noise, which were uttered and made by the men on the mares as they went at full gallop, shouting, to receive the bride and bridegroom, who were approaching with musical instruments and pageantry …
Gibbon recounts Tacitus’s portrait of German honor and loyalty in chief-companion warbands, then notes women’s chastity and polygamy limited to princes, with divorce restricted by custom and adultery punished harshly.
The Germans respected only those duties which they imposed on themselves. The most obscure soldier resisted with disdain the authority of the magistrates. “The noblest youths blushed not to be numbered among the faithful companions of some renowned chief, to whom they devoted their arms and service. A noble emulation prevailed among the companions to obtain the first place in the e…
Engels explains workers’ sexual licence, crime, and family breakdown as consequences of poverty, lack of alternatives, overcrowded housing, and social arrangements that drive people toward brute-level survival.
a bourgeois, that they must offer their bodies to the passers-by in order to live?--surely it has least of all a right to reproach the workers with their sexual brutality. The failings of the workers in general may be traced to an unbridled thirst for pleasure, to want of providence, and of flexibility in fitting into the social order, to the general inability to sacrifice the pleasure of the moment to a remoter adv…
Engels claims manufacturers’ statistics hide that adult men are “crowded out” by female and child employment, then links women’s mill work to family dissolution, child accidents, maternal return to work after confinement, and narcotics to keep children still.
as overlookers, a mechanic and an engineer for the steam-engines, carpenters, porters, etc.; but the actual work of the mills is done by women and children. This the manufacturers deny. They published last year elaborate tables to prove that machinery does not supersede adult male operatives. According to these tables, rather more than half of all the factory-workers employed, *viz*., 52 per cent., were females and…
He recounts his struggle with marriage and continence, believing he could manage it himself, while Alypius urges celibate life for wisdom; their arguments intensify both desire and restraint.
charges: and this shall be the bound of desire. Many great men, and most worthy of imitation, have given themselves to the study of wisdom in the state of marriage." While I went over these things, and these winds shifted and drove my heart this way and that, time passed on, but I delayed to turn to the Lord; and from day to day deferred to live in Thee, and deferred not daily to die in myself. Loving a happy life, …
Mill turns to when representative government becomes inapplicable, listing three foundational requirements: the people’s willingness to accept it, to preserve it, and to perform its imposed duties.
We have recognized in representative government the ideal type of the most perfect polity for which, in consequence, any portion of mankind are better adapted in proportion to their degree of general improvement. As they range lower and lower in development, that form of government will be, generally speaking, less suitable to them, though this is not true universally; for the adaptation of a people to representative…
Halfdan the Black marries Ragnhild, daughter of Sigurd Hjort, after a violent abduction and burning at Hadeland by the berserker Hake, followed by Halfdan’s retrieval of Ragnhild, her marriage-feast, and her dream of the tree.
4. HALFDAN'S STRIFE WITH GANDALF'S SONS. In autumn, King Halfdan proceeded to Vingulmark. One night when he was there in guest quarters, it happened that about midnight a man came to him who had been on the watch on horseback, and told him a war force was come near to the house. The king instantly got up, ordered his men to arm themselves, and went out of the house and drew them up in battle order. At the same momen…
On Saturday, July 14, Gerry proposes limiting the number of future states so they never outnumber Atlantic states, King seconds, Sherman and Gerry argue it either unnecessary or needed to protect emigrated constituents; the motion fails.
M^r King, seconded the motion. M^r Sherman, thought there was no probability that the number of future States would exceed that of the Existing States. If the event should ever happen, it was too remote to be taken into consideration at this time. Besides We are providing for our posterity, for our children & our grand Children; who would be as likely to be citizens of new Western States, as of the old States. On th…
The Miller introduces a wealthy Oxford carpenter who boards guests and a scholar, Nicholas, skilled in astrology, whose secret affair with the carpenter’s jealous wife (Alison) is arranged while the husband is away.
1. Pilate, an unpopular personage in the mystery-plays of the middle ages, was probably represented as having a gruff, harsh voice. 2. Wite: blame; in Scotland, “to bear the wyte,” is to bear the blame. THE TALE. Whilom there was dwelling in Oxenford A riche gnof*, that *guestes held to board*, *miser *took in boarders* And of his craft he was a carpenter. With him there was dwelling a poor scholer, Had learned …
Alison and Nicholas secretly meet, then Alison goes to church for work-related religious observance; the parish clerk Absolon, depicted as flirtatious and licentious, quickly becomes obsessed with her.
men asked him in certain hours, When that men should have drought or elles show’rs: Or if men asked him what shoulde fall Of everything, I may not reckon all. This clerk was called Hendy* Nicholas; *gentle, handsome Of derne* love he knew and of solace; *secret, earnest And therewith he was sly and full privy, And like a maiden meek for to see. A chamber had he in that hostelry Alon…
Nicholas escalates the affair at a private window while Alison resists his advances, then later yields through negotiated secrecy and oaths, emphasizing her fear of her husband’s jealousy.
on her legges high; She was a primerole,* a piggesnie <12>, *primrose For any lord t’ have ligging* in his bed, *lying Or yet for any good yeoman to wed. Now, sir, and eft* sir, so befell the case, *again That on a day this Hendy Nicholas Fell with this younge wife to rage* and play, *toy, play the rogue While that her husband was at Oseney,<13> As clerkes be full subtle and full quaint. …
Absolon continues pursuing Alison from his window-side position, sings under the carpenter’s bower, and she tells her husband she hears him; the scene sets up rivalry around the parish clerk’s courtship.
workes for to wirch*, *work This good wife went upon a holy day; Her forehead shone as bright as any day, So was it washen, when she left her werk. Now was there of that church a parish clerk, The which that was y-cleped Absolon. Curl’d was his hair, and as the gold it shone, And strutted* as a fanne large and broad; *stretched Full straight and even lay his jolly shode*. *head of h…
Absolon courts Alison through gifts and agents, while she favors Nicholas, so the jealous carpenter’s Saturday-to-Sunday absence enables Nicholas to hide in the chamber, mocking the husband’s ignorance.
under our bower* wall?” *chamber And she answer’d her husband therewithal; “Yes, God wot, John, I hear him every deal.” This passeth forth; what will ye bet* than well? *better From day to day this jolly Absolon So wooeth her, that him is woebegone. He waketh all the night, and all the day, To comb his lockes broad, and make him gay. He wooeth her *by means and by brocage*, *by presents and by agents* And swore …
While Simkin drunkenly snores, Alein and John each arrange sexual encounters with Simkin’s daughter and wife, but their attempts lead to confusion, interruption, and sudden violence when the household wakes.
sleep, Nor of his tail behind he took no keep*. *heed His wife bare him a burdoun*, a full strong; *bass <20> Men might their routing* hearen a furlong. *snoring The wenche routed eke for company. Alein the clerk, that heard this melody, He poked John, and saide: “Sleepest thou? Heardest thou ever such a song ere now? Lo what a compline<21> is y-mell* them all. *among A wilde fire upon their bo…
In public the marquis announces his new wife is coming and orders Griseldis to vacate her place and return to her father, but she willingly gives up her status, restores clothing and ring, and walks home nearly naked to prove devotion and purity.
you my maidenhead, And am your true wife, it is no dread,* *doubt God shielde* such a lordes wife to take *forbid Another man to husband or to make.* *mate “And of your newe wife, God of his grace So grant you weal and all prosperity: For I will gladly yield to her my place, In which that I was blissful wont to be. For since it liketh you, my Lord,” quoth she, “That whilom weren all mine hearte’s rest, That I shall …
The knight (January) resolves to marry, sends for friends to arrange it, insists the bride be young (under sixteen), and argues that old widows are crafty, marriage avoids adultery, and children protect inheritance.
*although men joke Of worldly folk holde the sicker* way; and jeer* *certain They be so knit there may no harm betide, And namely* upon the wife’s side. * especially For which this January, of whom I told, Consider’d hath within his dayes old, The lusty life, the virtuous quiet, That is in marriage honey-sweet. And for his friends upon a day he sent To tell them the effect of his intent. With face sad,* his tale he…
Two days later Mattio del Nazaro invites Cellini and workers to a garden; despite Pagolo’s assurances, Cellini returns suspiciously at dusk and catches Pagolo and Caterina in compromising disorder.
watch over the premises. Go then with mind at rest to take your pleasure and divert your spirits. Some other day another man will take my place as guardian here.” Thinking that I could go of with a quiet mind, I took Pagolo, Ascanio, and Chioccia to the garden, where we spent a large portion of the day agreeably. Toward the middle of the afternoon, however, when it began to draw toward sundown, a suspicion came into…
He requires that any sexual connection involving a betrothed person is utterly detestable, and prescribes that after marriage consummation, infidelity should be punished with disgrace and severe condemnation.
With respect to any connection between a man and a woman, or a woman and a man, when either of the parties are betrothed, let it be held in utter detestation [1336a] on any pretext whatsoever; but should any one be guilty of such a thing after the marriage is consummated, let his infamy be as great as his guilt deserves.
Tacitus explains German marriage customs and chastity: exchange of arms rather than dowry, women’s wedding rites warning them to share war hardships, punishment of adultery, and the view that limiting births and killing infants is sinful.
wife, excepting a very few amongst them; men of dignity who marry divers wives, from no wantonness or lubricity, but courted for the lustre of their family into many alliances. To the husband, the wife tenders no dowry; but the husband, to the wife. The parents and relations attend and declare their approbation of the presents, not presents adapted to feminine pomp and delicacy, nor such as serve to deck the new mar…
David sees Bathsheba, commits adultery, arranges Uriah’s death during a siege attempt by Joab at Rabbah, mourns briefly through events, marries Bathsheba, and Nathan confronts him with a parable.
Concluded. 1. This were the honors that such as were left of Saul's and Jonathan's lineage received from David. About this time died Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, who was a friend of David's; and when his son had succeeded his father in the kingdom, David sent ambassadors to him to comfort him; and exhorted him to take his father's death patiently, and to expect that he would continue the same kindness to himse…
Objections to household laws are answered at length: Israelite slavery was restricted and temporary, rules on striking servants depended on certainty of death, marriage restrictions reflected faith-protection, and divorce is tolerated for heart-hardness.
to the owner if they be found going astray. Therefore it was unsuitably commanded (Deut. 23:15): "Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is fled to thee." Obj. 3: Further, the Divine Law should encourage mercy more even than the human law. But according to human laws those who ill-treat their servants and maidservants are severely punished: and the worse treatment of all seems to be that which results…
The text completes Q.105 by explaining laws on refusing certain marriages, levirate-like obligations, the temporary nature and limits of divorce, and why sacrifices of jealousy target marital adultery rather than other wrongs.
*On the contrary,* It is written (Ps. 18:10): "The judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves." *I answer that,* The mutual relations of the members of a household regard everyday actions directed to the necessities of life, as the Philosopher states (Polit. i, 1). Now the preservation of man's life may be considered from two points of view. First, from the point of view of the individual, i.e. in so fa…
Augustus’ family and fortunes collapse: he banishes the two Julias for sexual misconduct, loses Caius and Lucius, adopts and then confines Agrippa and has Julia’s banishment governed with strict controls.
hand-writing. He never supped but he had them sitting at the foot of his couch; nor ever travelled but with them in a chariot before him, or riding beside him. LXV. But in the midst of all his joy and hopes in his numerous and well-regulated family, his fortune failed him. The two Julias, his daughter and grand-daughter, abandoned themselves to such courses of lewdness and debauchery, that he banished them both. …
Calvin argues that the law is not abrogated for believers in its doctrine, but its curse-binding power is removed through Christ; Christ fulfills the law while keeping its authority.
same time this truth remains for ever unshaken, that the law has sustained no diminution of its authority, but ought always to receive from us the same veneration and obedience. XVI. The case of ceremonies, which have been abrogated, not as to their effect, but only as to their use, is very different. Their having been abolished by the advent of Christ, is so far from derogating from their sanctity, that it rather r…
Calvin continues that the mediator’s work is to restore divine favor by making people children of God, requiring Christ to share human flesh, overcome death and sin, and thus redeem in the Son.
large—“that we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”(1100) II. This will still more fully appear, if we consider, that it was no mean part which the Mediator had to perform; namely, to restore us to the Divine favour, so as, of children of men, to make us children of God; of heirs of hell, to make us heirs o…
Another collection of scriptural citations (especially John, Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, and 1–2 Corinthians) supporting Calvin’s point that grace involves divine illumination and adoption in Christ.
1392 Gal. iii. 27. 1393 1 John v. 7, 8. 1394 1 Pet. i. 2. 1395 1 Cor. vi. 11. 1396 Rom. i. 4. 1397 Joel ii. 28. 1398 Rom. viii. 9. 1399 Rom. viii. 11. 1400 John vii. 37. 1401 Ephes. iv. 7. 1402 1 Cor. xv. 45. 1403 2 Cor. xiii. 14. 1404 Rom. v. 5. 1405 Rom. viii. 15. 1406 2 Cor. i. 22. Eph. i. 13, 14. 1407 Rom. viii. 10. 1408 Isaiah lv. 1. 1409 Isaiah xliv. 3. 1410 John vii. 37; iv. 14. 1411 Ezek. x…
The passage details waiting periods for divorced women, limits divorce to two pronouncements with either honorable retention or kind release, describes the “after a third time” requirement of remarriage and divorce, and warns against harming during iddat.
(by marriage), if they think that they can keep within the limits of Allah, and these are the limits of Allah which He makes clear for a people who know. 002.231 Y: When ye divorce women, and they fulfil the term of their ('Iddat), either take them back on equitable terms or set them free on equitable terms; but do not take them back to injure them, (or) to take undue advantage; if any one does that; He wrongs his o…
It instructs that divorced women should not be prevented from remarrying their former husbands if they agree justly, sets breastfeeding duties for two years with costs on the father, and provides iddat rules for widows waiting four months and ten days.
offspring, there is no blame on you, provided ye pay (the mother) what ye offered, on equitable terms. But fear Allah and know that Allah sees well what ye do. P: Mothers shall suckle their children for two whole years; (that is) for those who wish to complete the suckling. The duty of feeding and clothing nursing mothers in a seemly manner is upon the father of the child. No-one should be charged beyond his capacit…
The text addresses engagement and divorce before consummation: it says no blame for expressing betrothal hopes, forbids secret promises without lawful words, and sets gifts/provision when divorcing before touching or fixing dowries.
not consummate the marriage until (the term) prescribed is run. Know that Allah knoweth what is in your minds, so beware of Him; and know that Allah is Forgiving, Clement. S: And there is no blame on you respecting that which you speak indirectly in the asking of (such) women in marriage or keep (the proposal) concealed within your minds; Allah knows that you will mention them, but do not give them a promise in secr…
The passage legislates divorce (talaq) by requiring divorce during prescribed waiting periods, forbidding expulsion from houses except for clear immorality, ordering reconciliation or equitable separation, and setting detailed rules for iddah in menstrual despair and pregnancy.
AT-TALAQ (DIVORCE) Total Verses: 12 Revealed At: MADINA --------------------------------------------------------------------- In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. 065.001 Y: O Prophet! When ye do divorce women, divorce them at their prescribed periods, and count (accurately), their prescribed periods: And fear Allah your Lord: and turn them not out of their houses, nor shall they (themsel…
Further divorce regulations require equitable treatment for women in iddah, include provisions for pregnancy and breastfeeding, describe how each spouse should spend according to means, and warn communities that reject messengers with severe punishment.
the pregnant women, their prescribed time is that they lay down their burden; and whoever is careful of (his duty to) Allah He will make easy for him his affair. 065.005 Y: That is the Command of Allah, which He has sent down to you: and if any one fears Allah, He will remove his ills, from him, and will enlarge his reward. P: That is the commandment of Allah which He revealeth unto you. And whoso keepeth his duty …
Ambrogiuolo wagers with Bernabo in Paris that he can seduce Bernabo’s wife within three months by paying fines if he fails, writes the agreement, then travels to Genoa where he finds a compliant helper to hide him in a chest in the lady’s bedroom.
thou shouldst succeed in bringing her to pleasure thee in such a sort; and shouldst thou fail, thou shalt forfeit to me no more than one thousand florins of gold." Elated by this unexpected offer, Ambrogiuolo replied:--"I know not what I should do with thy blood, Bernabo, if I won the wager; but, if thou wouldst have proof of what I have told thee, lay five thousand florins of gold, which must be worth less to thee …
Hidden inside a chest, Ambrogiuolo watches the Genoese lady asleep and confirms she bears a distinctive mole, steals items as proof, returns to Paris, and Bernabo is convinced; then Bernabo sends a servant to kill her, who spares her after persuasion.
into the bedroom of the lady, whom the good woman, following Bernabo's instructions, induced to take charge of it for some days, during which, she said, she would be away. So the lady suffered the chest to remain in the room; and when the night was so far spent that Bernabo thought she must be asleep, he opened it with some tools with which he had provided himself, and stole softly out. There was a light in the room…
Ricciardo urges a young woman to leave her lover Paganino and return to him in Pisa as his wife, but she refuses, defends her honor, and threatens to raise a cry of assault if he tries to violate her.
get you hence, and good luck go with you, but depart with what speed you may, and observe as many feasts as you like, so I be not with you." The pain with which Messer Ricciardo followed this outburst was more than he could bear, and when she had done, he exclaimed:--"Ah! sweet soul of me, what words are these that thou utterest? Hast thou no care for thy parents' honour and thine own? Wilt thou remain here to be th…
Zima’s impersonation of the silent wife tricks the knight and secures ongoing adultery with the wife, while the wife later arranges the midnight meeting during Messer Francesco’s six-month absence.
well to it that thou be not seen), and thou shalt find me waiting for thee, and we will have our fill of mutual cheer and solace all night long." Having thus answered for the lady, Zima resumed his own person and thus replied to the lady:--"Dearest madam, your boon response so overpowers my every faculty that scarce can I frame words to render you due thanks; and, were I able to utter all I feel, time, however long,…
Catella follows the plan, confronts Ricciardo as the supposed lover in the dark, and angrily believes she has caught him with another woman while spending the night plotting what to say.
set in order, and made up a bed there as well as she could, into which bed Ricciardo got, as soon as he had breakfasted, and there awaited Catella's coming. Now Catella, still giving more credence to Ricciardo's story than it merited, had gone home in the evening in a most resentful mood, and Filippello, returning home the same evening with a mind greatly preoccupied, was scarce as familiar with her as he was wont t…
A pilgrim argues that a woman’s sexual affair broke marriage vows, but her later betrayal caused even worse crimes against Tedaldo, making her husband’s exile and possible murder more culpable than mere adultery.
Or if they must needs not live as recluses, why follow they not that other holy text of the Gospel:--Christ began to do and to teach?(1) Let them practise first, and school us with their precepts afterwards. A thousand such have I seen in my day, admirers, lovers, philanderers, not of ladies of the world alone, but of nuns; ay, and they too such as made the most noise in the pulpits. Is it such as they that we are to…
While Gillette is married and managing affairs at Roussillon, she learns Bertrand is loving a poor noblewoman in Florence, then disguises herself as a pilgrim to recruit that woman’s help in tricking Bertrand into fathering Gillette’s desired children.
she lodged in a little inn kept by a good woman that was a widow, bearing herself lowly as a poor pilgrim, and eagerly expectant of news of her lord. Now it so befell that the very next day she saw Bertrand pass in front of the inn on horseback at the head of his company; and though she knew him very well, nevertheless she asked the good woman of the inn who he was. The hostess replied:--"'Tis a foreign gentleman--C…
Gillette instructs the poor noblewoman to send word to Bertrand with a ring plan so that Bertrand sleeps with her in place of his beloved daughter, producing pregnancy and enabling Gillette to obtain her husband through secrecy.
him on my arm, shall have him for my own again, and live with him even as a wife should live with her husband, and owe it all to you." The lady felt that 'twas not a little that the Countess craved of her, for she feared lest it should bring reproach upon her daughter: but she reflected that to aid the good lady to recover her husband was an honourable enterprise, and that in undertaking it she would be subserving a…
Ghismonda uses a secret stair from Tancred’s palace to reach a disused grotto, where she and Guiscardo meet secretly by rope ladder each night until their affair is threatened.
another, he fell to devising how to set all in order that he might not fail to meet the lady on the following day, after the manner she had prescribed. Now hard by the Prince's palace was a grotto, hewn in days of old in the solid rock, and now long disused, so that an artificial orifice, by which it received a little light, was all but choked with brambles and plants that grew about and overspread it. From one of t…
Dioneo introduces a comic tale from Perugia: Pietro di Vinciolo takes an overly hot-blooded wife, and the story builds around her sexual scheming and a hidden lover under a hen-coop discovered by mishap.
to the place, sees him, and apprehends the trick played on him by his wife, which nevertheless he finally condones, for that he is not himself free from blame. -- When the queen had done speaking, and all had praised God that He had worthily rewarded Federigo, Dioneo, who never waited to be bidden, thus began:--I know not whether I am to term it a vice accidental and superinduced by bad habits in us mortals, or whet…
A wife plots to conceal her lover and justifies her adultery by recruiting an old pious-looking matchmaker to help her deceive her husband, citing women’s limited prospects and men’s freedom.
it to his own condemnation, whereas in me 'twere commendable. 'Tis but the laws that I shall set at nought, whereas he sets both them and Nature herself at nought. So the good lady reasoned, and peradventure more than once; and then, casting about how she might privily compass her end, she made friends with an old beldam, that shewed as a veritable Santa Verdiana, foster-mother of vipers, who was ever to be seen goi…
The matchmaker smuggles the described boy into the lady’s chamber, then during a dinner with her husband Pietro and friend Ercolano the couple hides him under a hen-coop when Pietro arrives unexpectedly.
shalt henceforth go shares with me in all my indulgences and every paternoster that I say, that God may make thereof light and tapers for thy dead:" wherewith she ended. So the lady came to an understanding with the beldam, that, as soon as she set eyes on a boy that often came along that street, and of whom the lady gave her a particular description, she would know what she was to do: and thereupon the lady gave he…
Pietro’s friend Ercolano discovers the hidden boy when the “sneezer” is revealed by brimstone fumes from a closet, leading to a near attempt to kill the intruder and neighbors removing him.
veils with brimstone, having sprinkled it on a dish, that they might catch its fumes, which dish I then placed under the stair, so that it still smells a little.' "However the door being now, as I have said, open, and the smoke somewhat less dense, Ercolano, peering in, espied the fellow that had sneezed, and who still kept sneezing, being thereto constrained by the pungency of the brimstone. And for all he sneezed,…