" but I beseech you, as most I may, that you inflict not on her those pangs which you inflicted whilere on her who was sometime yours; for methinketh she might scarce avail to endure them, both because she is younger and because she hath been delicately reared, whereas the other had been in continual fatigues from a little child. "

― Giovanni Boccaccio , The Decameron and Collected Works of Giovanni Boccaccio (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Nine Book 2)