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not enough for thee forsooth , I that might content a crowd ! Would they had choked thee with the filth in which they have soused thee ; 't was thy fit resting-place . Now , to think that a physician of repute , and a married man , should go by night after strange women ! '' Thus , and with much more to the like effect , while the doctor was busy washing himself , she ceased not to torment him until midnight . On the morrow , Bruno and Buffalmacco , having painted their bodies all over with livid patches to give them the appearance of having been thrashed , came to the doctor 's house , and finding that he was already risen , went in , being saluted on all hands by a foul smell , for time had not yet served thoroughly to cleanse the house . The doctor , being informed that they were come to see him , advanced to meet them , and bade them good morning . Whereto Bruno and Buffalmacco , having prepared their answer , replied : -- `` No good morning shall you have from us : rather we pray God to give you bad years enough to make an end of you , seeing that there lives no more arrant and faithless traitor .