i don't know why hannahjaxson deleted this questioN but

Read this: Sweet and gentle ladies this day has been devoted so far as I can see, to the doings of kings and sultans and people of that sort and therefore, so as not to place too great a distance between us I want to tell you of a marquis, whose actions, even though things turned out well for him in the end, were remarkable not so much for their munificence as for their senseless brutality.

Which option identifies an explicit meaning of the above excerpt?