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Mock injuries

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Often appears with: social shame and honor · honor, shame, and reputation · friendship and reconciliation · friendship and loyalty · fear of punishment · comic interrogation

Usually: narrative (1) · reconciliation (1) · detachment (1) · humor (1)

The Decameron, Volume II secondary

Giovanni Boccaccio · 1349-1353 (approx.); for this volume: portions composed within the overall work's timeframe
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Next morning, Buffalmacco and Bruno pretend to show thrashing wounds, accuse the doctor of faithless betrayal and warn him about fearing God during the prank, then accept apologies and celebrate together.

go by night after strange women!" Thus, and with much more to the like effect, while the doctor was busy washing himself, she ceased not to torment him until midnight. On the morrow, Bruno and Buffalmacco, having painted their bodies all over with livid patches to give them the appearance of having been thrashed, came to the doctor's house, and finding that he was already risen, went in, being saluted on all hands b…