Importunate lovers led astray.
Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Humiliated or baffled lovers. · view the constellation · filed as K1218
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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 Suitor locked in pigsty Suitors one by one enticed into graveyard and left together. They later get revenge 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 Girl asks importunate lover for weapon to use against her father. Instead, she uses it to defend herself against the suitor Importunate lover beaten and sent on street bearing humiliating placard Importunate lover tied to tree Importunate lover beaten with canes filled with straw. He thinks he is severely wounded Obscene tricks are played on repugnant simpleton who wishes to marry 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
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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 gaze Lover 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 flies Terrorizing the paramour (importunate lover) Hercules spins for his beloved. Is forced to dress as woman and discharge womanly duties including spinning Aristotle 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 sees Hidden 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 wife Tale of the basin. Lover caught on magic basin and left in embarrassing position Woman tricks importunate lover with the head of a pike. Thereafter he thinks the vagina is toothed Mistress deceives lover with a substitute Lover given rump to kiss. Sometimes the trick is played by a rival lover. (Chaucer's Miller's Tale) Lover put off by deceptive respite Woman 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 permission Lover deceived by false suicide agreement. The woman persuades her lover to jump from a cliff; she will follow. She does not jump Lover humiliated by his impotence King tricked into sleeping with hag
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