Boccaccio:
ma prima da lei voglio sapere alcuna cosa in tua presenza";
but first of all there are some matters I would learn from her own lips in thy presence."
Petrarch:
"Let us, then, go in alone," said the marquis, "that I may put certain questions to the girl herself in your presence."
"Let us, then, go in alone," said the marquis, "that I may put certain questions to the girl herself in your presence."
Chaucer:
"Yet wol I," quod this markys softely,
"That in thy chambre I and thou and she
Have a collacioun, and wostow why?
For I wol axe, if it hir wille be
To be my wyf, and reule hir after me;
And al this shal be doon in thy presence,
I wol noght speke out of thyn audience."
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