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“Madonna Oretta“
A very clever woman, Madonna Oretta, found herself in the good. He flubs the story endlessly and he actually succeeds
company of a knight as she was on a journey through the in making Oretta feel sick. She pleasantly tells him that he
countryside. The knight promised to take her riding by telling has “taken [her] riding on a horse that trots very jerkily,” and
her the best story ever. Oretta is delighted. However, it begs him to set her down. The knight laughs at his own
turns out that the story was good, but the storyteller not so shortcomings and decides to tell her a different sort of tale.
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