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Scholars’ trail — 8references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller.
  • general *Chauvin IX 20 Nos. 7, 8
  • general Alphabet No. 535
  • general Scala Celi 86b No. 504
  • general Oesterley No. 122
  • general Hitopadesa (ed. Morley) 66
  • general Mensa Philosophica No. 49
  • general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 27
Within the index

Filed under The husband's good eye covered. The wife holds a cloth in front of his one good eye, so that he cannot see the paramour.

1 finer motif beneath it
Physician treating man's eye covers his one good eye. Entertains his patient's mistress
Filed beside it
Girl covers nurse's one good eye so that she cannot see her loverAdulteress extinguishes light to hide her paramourAdulteress covers husband's eyes during incantation. Meanwhile paramour escapesAdulteress persuades husband to milk cow with his eyes blindfolded: meets lover. (Cf. Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.)The faithless wife asks her gullible husband how he would act if he were blind. The husband closes his eyes; meanwhile the lover escapesWife washes husband's hair hiding his eyes while lover escapes unseenWife has husband look for hole in pot she has bought, allowing lover to escape unseenWife shows husband her milk-filled breasts and squirts milk in his eyes allowing lover to escape unseen
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