OF WOMEN NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
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APPLICATION.
My beloved, the layman is any worldly-minded man, who, thinking to do one foolish thing without offence, falls into a thousand errors. But he assembles the people, that is, past and present sins, and by confession expurgates his conscience.
TALE XLVI.
OF WOMEN WHO ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
Macrobius (30) states that a Roman youth, named Papirius, was once present with his father in the senate, at a time when a very important matter was debated, which, on pain of death, was to be kept secret. When the lad returned home, his mother asked him
