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Filed under Importunate lovers led astray.

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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 offSuitor locked in pigstySuitors one by one enticed into graveyard and left together. They later get revengeSuitors 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 blowsGirl asks importunate lover for weapon to use against her father. Instead, she uses it to defend herself against the suitorImportunate lover tied to treeImportunate lover beaten with canes filled with straw. He thinks he is severely woundedObscene tricks are played on repugnant simpleton who wishes to marryWife 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

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