Lover put off by deceptive respite.
Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Humiliated or baffled lovers. · view the constellation · filed as K1227
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Lover put off till girl bathes and dresses. She escapes Suitors put off till web is woven. Unwoven each night. (Penelope.) Respite from wooer while he brings clothes all night. The girl wastes time trying them on Girl asks undesired lover to take off his boots. She pulls off one partway and escapes Woman leaves importunate lover waiting in her room. Feigns illness and then escapes Girl asks undesired lover to follow her but not to step on her shadow Girl says she has made vow not to marry until pilgrimage is made Girl as umpire in suitor test (shooting arrows) escapes Importunate lover kept overlong at supper: must leave Escape from undesired lover by alleging menstrual period
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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 Importunate lovers led astray 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) 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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