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Of a Shoemaker’s Apprentice Who Preferred His Master’s House to the Workshop
21 Sep 07
A shoemaker in Arezzo had an apprentice who often left the workshop and retired into the house of his master, on the ground that he could work better and more comfortably in the quiet of the house.
This aroused the suspicions of the shoemaker, so that he came to the house one day unexpectedly and found the lad in bed with his wife.
Whereupon he said sternly to his apprentice: “You are wasting your time; for this type of work I shall certainly not pay you.” (25)
Fiorentino, Poggio. Facetia Erotica. New York: [privately printed], 1930.
Posted by pzed on September 21, 2007 at 8.09pm
Categories: fragments, scripture
