“Frederigo, of the Alberighi family, loved a gentlewoman, and was not requited
with like love again. But, by bountiful expenses, and over-liberal invitations, he
wasted all his lands and goods, having nothing left him but a hawk or faulcon.
His unkind mistress happened to come to visit him, and he not having any other
food for her dinner, made a dainty dish of his faulcon for her to feed on. Being
conquered by this exceeding kind courtesie, she changed her former hatred
towards him, accepting him as her husband in marriage, and made him a man of
wealthy possessions.”—Boccaccio. (Old translation.) Fifth day: Novel 9.
