592. CONCERNING THE PUNISHMENT OF THOSE WOMEN ESPECIALLY, WHO LEAD A LUXURIOUS AND INDOLENT LIFE There is a punishment for those women who have led a luxurious and indolent life, as is characteristic of women in some regions when they have become wealthy and for some reason raised to eminence above other women, and so settle down to delights, and like queens let themselves be waited upon by domestics and attendants, having no care for anything else than in indulging their inclination in elegance and indolence, in reclining on couches, in attiring themselves, and in sitting at feasts and [card] tables [et sedendo ad mensas et tabulas], and in living their life in this way. But I saw the cruel punishment which such women afterwards undergo in the other life. Twice I was instructed that such are not those women who have been born to these things, like queens, or those who have been brought up in such things from infancy, for these women know nothing else, because they are accustomed to them. But those women are meant who in course of time from a certain eminence, from riches, and hence from pride, have thus given themselves up to pleasures.