[Midlands] Ot and enquired how near he then abode to Paris. It was answered him that h

[Vartanyan]

Fluous; wherefore, if for each one of these cauldrons of broth there be
rendered you an hundred in the world to come, you will have so much
thereof that you will assuredly all be drowned therein.' [Footnote 57:
"And every one that hath forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or
father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall
receive an hundredfold and shall inherit everlasting life."--Matthew
xix. 29. Boccaccio has garbled the passage for the sake of his point.]
All who were at the inquisitor's table fell a-laughing; but the latter,
feeling the hit at the broth-swilling[58] hypocrisy of himself and his
brethren, was mightily incensed, and but that he had gotten blame for
that which he had already done, he would have saddled him with another
prosecution, for that with a laughable speech he had rebuked him and his
brother good-for-noughts; wherefore, of his despite, he bade him
thenceforward do what most pleased him and not come before him again."
[Footnote 58: Syn. gluttonous (_brodajuola_).] THE SEVENTH STORY [Day
the First] BERGAMINO, WITH A STORY OF PRIMASSO AND THE ABBOT OF CLUNY,
COURTEOUSLY REBUKETH A FIT OF PARSIMONY NEWLY COME TO MESSER CANE DELLA
SCALA Emilia's pleasantness and her story moved the queen and all the
rest to laugh and applaud the rare conceit of this new-fangled crusader.
Then, after the laughter had subsided and all were silent again,
Filostrato, whose turn it was to tell, began to speak on this wise: "It
is a fine thing, noble ladies, to hit a mark that never stirreth; but it
is well-nigh miraculous if, when some unwonted thing appeareth of a
sudden, it be forthright stricken of an archer. The lewd and filthy life
of the clergy, in many things as it were a constant mark f