Stanza 76

Boccaccio:

maravigliandosi egli della sua constanzia, lui con essa ne mandò a Bologna

and Gualtieri, marvelling at her constancy, sent him with the child to Bologna,


Petrarch:

iussitque satelliti obvolutam pannis, ciste iniectam, ac iumento impositam quieto, omni quanta posset diligentia

He ordered his slave to wrap the child in cloths, to place it in a wickerwork basket upon a beast of burden, and carry it, secretly and with all the diligence he could command,


Chaucer:

And bad his sergeant, that he pryvely
Sholde this child ful softe wynde and wrappe,
With alle circumstances tendrely,
And carie it in a cofre or in a lappe,
But, upon peyne his heed of for to swappe
That no man sholde knowe of his entente,
Ne whenne he cam, ne whider that he wente.


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