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Quotation from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
“the rank I had with you was of your and God's bestowal, nor did I ever make as if it were mine by gift, or so esteem it, but still accounted it as a loan”
The Decameron, Day 10, Novel 10, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903)
Griselda answers the Marquis of Saluzzo when he pretends to send her away after thirteen years of marriage, so that he may take a new wife.
Citation: "the rank I had with you was of your and God's bestowal, nor did I ever make as if it were mine by gift, or so esteem it, but still accounted it as a loan" — Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Day 10, Novel 10, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903). (id the-decameron-q7)
Portrait: A Tale from the Decameron (1916), painting by John William Waterhouse, John William Waterhouse, Public domain.
