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  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under The scorned lover.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Maid eloping with pretended lover is forced by him to strip Nobleman marries poor girl and then abandons her Woman sets out to kill man who has won and then scorned her. Ruler brings about their reconciliation Woman entertains two lovers on alternate nights. They expose the deception and scorn her in public
Filed beside it
Women scorned in love Man scorned by his beloved Princess calls her suitors ugly names Maid vexes suitor by pretense. Noble maid who is to marry knight pretends to be beggar's daughter

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