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Marguerite de Navarre · 1559
Survival-bias-relief candidate for F × straight × PRE1900. Saintsbury (1894) translation acceptable.
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What this book knows
Desire, clerical hypocrisy, and female wit collide in tales that know the flesh is never far from the soul.
erotic-as-power
If to have a great deal of love were to be rich, I should think myself the most opulent man in the world.
HEPTA-RC-204If his eyes were of little service to him, his hands were not so — touching her clothes, he found they were of velvet.
CAHRN-RC-346religion-and-sex
Are you a heretic, to refuse the penances which God and our holy Mother Church have ordained? I will not have you put your hands to it.
HEPTA-RC-332So shameless was he that after the commission of his sin he had the impudence to speak of it in the pulpit.
HEPTA-RC-134A monk, a priest, and a preacher, guilty on Christmas day of such infamy, in the house of God, under the sacred veil of confession.
CAHRN-RC-333shame
I thought to trick you, and I have been tricked myself — you see before you the most wretched creature in the world.
HEPTA-RC-1656 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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