HKB
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Often appears with: sexual secrecy · resistance and honor · nurse's counsel · marriage and betrothal · justice as a virtue · contracts, oaths, and obligation
Usually: speech or oration (1) · temptation (1) · exhortation (1) · skepticism (1)
The nurse insists she knows the narrator’s love already, promises to keep it secret, and warns her to resist Love’s “yoke,” arguing that resisting early prevents later ruin and dishonor.
although it is made plainly evident by deeds. There is no reason why you should hide from me a fact whereof I have had perfect knowledge since several days ago." Alas! when I heard her speak thus, provoked and stung by her words, I said: "If, then, thou wittest of all this, wherefore dost thou question me? All that thou hast to do now is to keep secret that which thou hast discovered." "In good truth," she replied…