[1] Now Gafsa, in Tunis.
[2] I.e. when you were so emaciated that your bones made music like a skeleton in the wind.
[3] Evidently some version of the tragical conte 'de la Chastelaine de Vergi, qui mori por laialment amer son ami.'See 'Fabliaux et Contes,' ed. Barbazan, iv. 296: and cf.Bandello, Pt. iv. Nov. v, and Heptameron, Journee vii. Nouvelle lxx.
- THE FOURTH DAY -
— Endeth here the third day of the Decameron,beginneth the fourth, in which, under the rule of Filostrato, discourse is had of those whose loves had a disastrous close. —