zing!

"There may also be those among you who will say that I have an evil and venomous tongue, because in certain places I write the truth about the friars. But who cares? I can readily forgive you for saying such things, for doubtless you are prompted by the purest of motives, friars being decent fellows, who forsake a life of discomfort for the love of God, who do their grinding when the millpond's full,* and say no more about it. Except for the fact that they all smell a little of the billy-goat,** their company would offer the greatest of pleasure."

-Epilogue, Decameron p. 802


*I am pretty sure this is saying they're sexually repressed, so when they let it out they're great in bed.

**Endnote says: this means they're gay.


And that's the penultimate paragraph of the Decameron.



p.s.

"Madam, this fellow thinks he knows Sicofante's wife better than I do. I've known her for years, and yet he has the audacity to try and convince me that on the first night Sicofante slept with her, John Thomas had to force an entry into Castle Dusk, shedding blood in the process; but I say it is not true, on the contrary he made his way in with the greatest of ease, to the general pleasure of the garrison."

--Sixth Day, Decameron p. 445


Oh, Boccaccio. You just basically wanted a chance to use ALL of the sex euphemisms you'd ever heard, didn't you? That's what this is about.