This looks like an illustration to a book I need to read.
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· 4 years ago
Ooh, this is a good one, Carvel's ring is a joke first found in print in Poggio's Facetiae as "Visio Francisci Philelphi". It is best-known in the version of Rabelais as told in the chapter "How Friar John comforteth Panurge in the doubtful matter of cuckoldry" of Gargantua and Pantagruel. It was adapted as a poem by La Fontaine based on Rabelais's version and versified in English by Matthew Prior. Rabelais probably found the allegory in the tales of Ariosto who admitted that it was a very old tale. Francis Grose collected it in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Illustration by Milo Manara
Can you tell me more about the story of this ring?
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· 4 years ago
Hans Carvel, a jealous old doctor, being in bed with his wife, dreamed that the Devil gave him a ring , which, so long as he had it on his finger , would prevent his being made a cuckold: waking he found he had got his finger the "Lord-knows-where." Lord-knows-where is an obvious euphemism for the wife's vagina. For as long as his finger is in there, his wife would not be unfaithful to him. In the 19th century Carvel's ring was itself a euphemism for vagina.
I watched movie like that before
The man was pretty old (60-70) they were doing cow girl and he got a heart attack qnd died.
French make interesting movies.
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Illustration by Milo Manara
The man was pretty old (60-70) they were doing cow girl and he got a heart attack qnd died.
French make interesting movies.