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ebaldo, Prince of Salerno,
according to the story I have heard repeated
many times by my elders, had to wife a
modest and prudent lady of good lineage, and
by her he had a daughter who in beauty and
grace outshone all the other ladies of Salerno;
but it would have been well for Tebaldo if she
had never seen the light, for in that case the
grave misadventure which befell him would
never have happened. His wife, young in years
but of mature wisdom, when she lay a-dying
besought her husband, whom she loved very
dearly, never to take for his wife any woman
whose finger would not exactly fit the ring
which she herself wore; and the prince, who
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