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Malleus Malorum
Voice of Experience
You ask me how I know these odious facts,
How I can chronicle so true the acts
Of woman, how within the span of life
A man, alone, can compass so much strife.
In youth I was ...view moreVoice of Experience
You ask me how I know these odious facts,
How I can chronicle so true the acts
Of woman, how within the span of life
A man, alone, can compass so much strife.
In youth I was by temper much inclined
To disregard all evil and to find
The good in everything, however small;
A thoroughgoing optimist withal.
A further trait of nature did affect me
In that the goddess Venus did select me
And fitted me for greatness in her arts
And fulsomely provided all the parts.
Philosophy and form were thus combined
To render me a pleasure unconfined
To ladies who a-thirsting for me flocked
To taste my well and find my weapon cocked.
And so began my arduous career
Which made me pessimist and taught me fear.
You see today the ravages, my son,
The sum of all the dreadful deeds they’ve done.view less