Matron) that I left the Room with Tears in my Eyes; which a Woman of
Arietta's
good Sense, did, I am sure, take for greater Applause, than any Compliments I could make her.
R.
Told in the prose
Satyricon
ascribed to Petronius, whom Nero called his Arbiter of Elegance. The tale was known in the Middle Ages from the stories of the
Seven Wise Masters