原文 (英语)

THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST OLD MAN AND THE BITCH. I shall begin then, says the old man; listen to me I pray you, with attention. This bitch you see is my cousin, nay, what is more, my wife: she was only twelve years of age when I married her, so that I may justly say, she ought as much to regard me as her father, as her kinsman and husband. We lived together twenty years without any children, yet her barrenness did hot hinder my haying a great deal of compl