“Bisogna,” soggiunse, “ch'un bollo per natica voi vi lasciate fare; et ove io non v'habbia dall'infermità vostra del tutto liberato, io mi contento che mi facciate, à guisa di rea, et malvagia donna, rigidamente castigare.”
À cui havendo il consigliere dato in risposta, che tutto che il lasciarsi le natiche bollare gli paresse cosa, che molto biasimo gli'havesse à recare; nondimeno, per potersi dalla grave infermità sua liberare, egli era contentò dicotesta, et maggior cosa sofferire.
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"It is necessary," he added, "that you let each of your buttocks be branded, and if you are not completely free of your ailment, I shall be severely punished as a guilty and malicious woman.
The counselor replied that letting his buttocks be branded would cause him much reproach, but in order to be rid of his ailment he would be happy to suffer this and even greater pain.
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The counselor replied that letting his buttocks be branded would cause him much reproach, but in order to be rid of his ailment he would be happy to suffer this and even greater pain.
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