μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • Italian NovellaRotunda.
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Filed under The oversensitive bride.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Doctor prescribes sexual intimacy for widow's ills. She claims to prefer death. Change of heart on daughters' plea. Daughters adopt treatment as a preventiveWanted: a husband to manage estate. Widow who claims to abhor intimacy rejects a eunuch with business qualificationsOverlooking the insult. Man consoles daughter whose husband is dying by telling her he has picked another husband for her. She feels insulted. No sooner does her husband die than she asks her father for details
Filed beside it
The bride's (wife's) false modesty. Wears gloves, etc. to bedGirl who is frightened by love becomes insatiableOversensitive bride pleads a headache (or other excuse). Groom retaliates with similar plea when she changes her mind

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