Stories from the Pentamerone

one proposed this punishment and another that. At last it came to the turn of the seven wicked women to speak, who, although they did not much relish this conversation, yet, as the truth comes out when the wine goes about, answered, that whoever had the heart basely to touch only this quintessence of the charms of love deserved to be buried alive in a dungeon.

And on that day, at the hour when the star of Venus appears, who awakes the Dawn, to strew the road along which the Sun has to pass,

given a filbert, which she was never to open