The constellation
K1218 Importunate lovers led astray
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- Humiliated or baffled lovers · K1210 entry
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- The entrapped suitors. (Lai l'épervier.) The chaste wife has them one at a time undress and hide. The husband and guests come and chase them off · K1218.1 entry
- Suitor locked in pigsty · K1218.2 entry
- Suitors one by one enticed into graveyard and left together. They later get revenge · K1218.3 entry
- Suitors as corpse, angel, and devil. First induced to lie in coffin, second to sit up with the "corpse", and the third to carry a firebrand. "Corpse" thinks others are angel and devil. All come to blows · K1218.4 entry
- Girl asks importunate lover for weapon to use against her father. Instead, she uses it to defend herself against the suitor · K1218.5 entry
- Importunate lover beaten and sent on street bearing humiliating placard · K1218.6 entry
- Importunate lover tied to tree · K1218.7 entry
- Importunate lover beaten with canes filled with straw. He thinks he is severely wounded · K1218.8 entry
- Obscene tricks are played on repugnant simpleton who wishes to marry · K1218.9 entry
- Wife takes lover beneath tree where she has told husband to hide. When he begins to kiss her, husband shouts "Keep a little for me." Lover, shamefaced, runs away · K1218.10 entry