- "Heaven would
indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as
they had experienced on earth."
- "Masetto then asked
how he had been employed at the convent, and Nuto answered: 'I kept
their large and beautiful garden in good trim, and, besides, I sometimes
went to the wood to fetch the faggots, I drew water, and did some other
trifling services; but the ladies gave so little wage that it scarce
kept me in shoes. And moreover they are all young, and, I think, they
are one and all possessed of the devil, for 'tis impossible to do anything
to their mind; indeed, when I would be at work in the kitchen-garden,
'put this here,' would say one, 'put that here,' would say another,
and a third would snatch the hoe from my hand, and say, 'that is not
as it should be'; and so they would worry me until I would give up working
and go out of the garden; so that, what with this thing and that, I
was minded to stay there no more, and so I am come hither. The steward
asked me before I left to send him any one whom on my return I might
find fit for the work, and I promised; but God bless his loins, I shall
be at no pains to find out and send him any one.' As Nuto thus ran on,
Masetto was seized by such a desire to be with these nuns that he quite
pined, as he gathered from what Nuto said that his desire might be gratified."
(Decameron
III.Novel 1)
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