This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ... now perforce he needs must lag behind. For ladies well advised are well content When foolish freaks of love are banished hence. No man their humour knows. Nor just intent Can show them as they are, without pretence. But they, in that sweet hour of recompense, Will teach him all with gracious play and kind. Wherefore, ye lovers, in your service sweet, Waste not your time in aught but dalliance due, For he who serves in fashion right and meet, Will know how best to keep his service true. And let none else his inmost longing view, Save her to whom his future is consigned. Seek thou, my song, who 'neath Love's banners stand, Who know the paths where Love is wont to stray, And, if thou canst, be one of this same band; For wise they are, and will not thee gainsay. Discourse to these of what thou hast to say, But pass him by who is not to thy mind. When the canzonet was ended the lovers full of love and ardour took one another by the hand, glancing at each other with sparkling eyes; then they exchanged sweet kisses, and departed glad in their good fortune. N the twelfth day the two lovers, having again met at the accustomed spot and greeted one another with great joy, Saturnina began and said, "Since we have begun to discourse on high and worthy themes, I will now tell you how Charles the Great, King of France, came to Italy at the suggestion of Pope Adrian, who was at that time sorely pressed by Constantine, the Greek Emperor, and Desiderius, King of the Lombards, and how Charles the Great was made emperor. Constantine, the son of Leo, the Emperor of Greece and Constantinople, had begun in Apulia to wage war with his forces against the Church, which was likewise attacked in Tuscany by Desiderius, the son of King Telofre; and, being beset by foes on every si...