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Often appears with: the city and urban life · sexuality and desire · sexual secrecy · sexual access to a queen · palace security · night-time deception · midnight secret meetings · marriage and betrothal · marital absence · justice as a virtue · counsel and advisers to rulers · bedroom infiltration
Usually: narrative (2) · irony (2) · betrayal (1) · deception discovered (1) · the fall of the great (1)
The groom hides in the king’s palace, watches Agilulf tap and enter the queen’s room by torch and wand, then copies the act using a mantle, torch, and bath to bed the queen.
Wherefore, that he might observe the carriage and dress of the King as he passed to her room, he contrived to conceal himself for several nights in a great hall of the King's palace which separated the King's room from that of the Queen: and on one of these nights he saw the King issue from his room, wrapped in a great mantle, with a lighted torch in one hand and a wand in the other, and cross the hall, and, saying n…
Zima’s impersonation of the silent wife tricks the knight and secures ongoing adultery with the wife, while the wife later arranges the midnight meeting during Messer Francesco’s six-month absence.
well to it that thou be not seen), and thou shalt find me waiting for thee, and we will have our fill of mutual cheer and solace all night long." Having thus answered for the lady, Zima resumed his own person and thus replied to the lady:--"Dearest madam, your boon response so overpowers my every faculty that scarce can I frame words to render you due thanks; and, were I able to utter all I feel, time, however long,…