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Often appears with: marriage and betrothal · justice as a virtue · widowhood avoidance · the fear of death · terms of service · suicide plan · strong and trustworthy · secret negotiations · sancho’s prudence · sancho’s counsel · public lamentation · princess’s squire obligations
Usually: narrative (5) · exhortation (3) · temptation (2) · detachment (2) · indignation (2) · dialogue (1) · ambition and its cost (1) · coming of age (1) · deception discovered (1) · grief and loss (1)
“Tis now for me to take up my parable; which, dearest ladies, I will do with a story like in some degree to the foregoing, and that, not only that you may know how potent are your charms to sway the gentle heart, but that you may also learn how upon fitting occasions to make bestowal of your guerdons of your own accord, instead of always waiting for the guidance of Fortune, which most times, not wisely, but without rule or measure, scatters her gifts.” Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Volume II · insight
“For thou must know that according to our way of thinking in chivalry, it is a high honour to a lady to have many knights-errant in her service, whose thoughts never go beyond serving her for her own sake, and who look for no other reward for their great and true devotion than that she should be willing to accept them as her knights.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote · precept
“A respectable damsel should have a broken leg and keep at home; and the woman and the hen by gadding about are soon lost; and she who is eager to see is also eager to be seen; I say no more.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote · wit
“My heart said yes to this offer at first word, but it was necessary to play the hypocrite a little more with him.” Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flan · insight
Sancho urges Don Quixote to marry quickly for practical profit, while they bargain about becoming king after killing a giant, and Don Quixote explains chivalric service to Dulcinea should be publicly honored yet privately imagined.
all that I have won, am winning, or shall win by arms in this life, comes to me of the favour she extends to me, and because I am hers.” “Ah! what a sad state your worship’s brains are in!” said Sancho. “Tell me, señor, do you mean to travel all that way for nothing, and to let slip and lose so rich and great a match as this where they give as a portion a kingdom that in sober truth I have heard say is more than twe…
Sancho persuades the youths to return home and not be childish, while the head-carver resolves to demand the damsel in marriage, and Sancho begins plotting to match the disguised youth with Sanchica.
“That is true,” said the damsel, “but you see the confusion I was in was so great it did not let me behave as I ought.” “No harm has been done,” said Sancho; “come, we will leave you at your father’s house; perhaps they will not have missed you; and another time don’t be so childish or eager to see the world; for a respectable damsel should have a broken leg and keep at home; and the woman and the hen by gadding abo…
One woman asks her father to hire Moses, described as strong and trustworthy, and the father proposes marriage to Moses’ service terms of eight years (or ten if completed).
Lord never destroyed the towns until He raised in their metropolis a messenger, reciting to them Our communications, and We never destroyed the towns except when their people were unjust. 028.060 Y: The (material) things which ye are given are but the conveniences of this life and the glitter thereof; but that which is with Allah is better and more enduring: will ye not then be wise? P: And whatsoever ye have been …
After the staged Friday execution disappears, the cruel damsel fears the fate repeating and changes from hatred to affection, secretly inviting Nastagio, agreeing to marriage, and then living happily.
of whom were of kin to the suffering damsel and to the knight, and called to mind his love and death, wept as bitterly as if 'twere their own case. When 'twas all over, and the lady and the knight had disappeared, the strange scene set those that witnessed it pondering many and divers matters: but among them all none was so appalled as the cruel damsel that Nastagio loved, who, having clearly seen and heard all that…
During a second meeting with wine and persuasion, the adviser proposes marriage before obtaining a divorce, promising chastity until then, while Moll plays along yet worries about entanglement.
found also he lived very handsomely, and had a house very handsomely furnished; all of which I was rejoiced at indeed, for I looked upon it as all my own. We had now a second conference upon the subject-matter of the last conference. He laid his business very home indeed; he protested his affection to me, and indeed I had no room to doubt it; he declared that it began from the first moment I talked with him, and lon…
After Thrasillus kills Lepolemus and pretends to mourn, Charites learns of his death and grieves publicly, then privately plans suicide while Thrasillus continues courting her to advance his plot.
Howbeit, Thrasillus was not sufficed to see him thus wounded, but when he desired his friendly help, he thrust Lepolemus through the right thigh with his speare, the more because he thought the wound of the speare would be taken for a wound of the Boars teeth, then he killed the beast likewise, And when he was thus miserably slaine, every one of us came out of our holes, and went towards our slaine master. But althou…