Suitor outwits watchman to meet lady — Mythoi

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Suitor outwits watchman to meet lady.

Sex. · Love. · Lovers' meeting. · view the constellation · filed as T46

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Filed under Lovers' meeting.

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To reach beauty young man climbs eight fences watched by one hundred guards

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Lovers' meeting: hero in service of heroine. As page, or the like Lovers' meeting: heroine heals hero's wounds. (Cf. T67.2.)Man transformed to animal kept as pet by heroine. (Cf. D658.)Lovers meet at social gathering Lovers' rendezvous. (Cf. R315.1.)Girl sleeps in garden to meet lover. Discovered next morning and married Lover finds lady in tomb apparently dead. She revives and marries him Communication of lovers Conversation of lovers Lover buys admission to woman's room Heroine hidden by stepmother when suitor comes