Terrorizing the paramour (importunate lover).
Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Humiliated or baffled lovers. · view the constellation · filed as K1213
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Vergil in the basket. A lover who is to be pulled up to his mistress's window is left hanging in the basket in the public gazeLover left standing in snow while his mistress is with another. He later tricks her into standing a whole day in July in a tower naked exposed to the sun and fliesHercules spins for his beloved. Is forced to dress as woman and discharge womanly duties including spinningAristotle and Phyllis: philosopher as riding horse for woman. The philosopher warns the king against uxoriousness. In revenge the queen beguiles the philosopher into letting her ride him on all-fours. The king comes and seesHidden paramour taken to his own wife. He hides in a chest. The chest is taken by a creditor who unwittingly delivers it to the paramour's wifeTale of the basin. Lover caught on magic basin and left in embarrassing positionImportunate lovers led astrayWoman tricks importunate lover with the head of a pike. Thereafter he thinks the vagina is toothedMistress deceives lover with a substituteLover given rump to kiss. Sometimes the trick is played by a rival lover. (Chaucer's Miller's Tale)Lover put off by deceptive respiteWoman humiliates would-be lover. Knowing that he has deceived another by paying her with gilded coin she answers: "You will have to pay in better coin than is your wont!"Chaste woman refers lover to her husband for permissionLover deceived by false suicide agreement. The woman persuades her lover to jump from a cliff; she will follow. She does not jumpLover humiliated by his impotenceKing tricked into sleeping with hag