Tentamina
From Seven Sages of Rome
'''The Test'''
A young woman who is sexually unsatisfied by her old husband wishes to take a lover. Before she does so, however, her mother counsels her to test her husband’s patience and depth of feeling. The young wife first cuts down her husband’s favourite tree, then kills his beloved dog, and receives no punishment – this, she reports to her mother, encourages her to take lover. But the final test – disrupting a dinner and shaming her husband before guests – results in her husband losing patience, and ordering her to be blood-let to within an inch of her life. She no longer desires a lover.
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