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Often appears with: marriage and betrothal · equity, mercy, and pardon · threatened execution or death · sin, guilt, and repentance · self-disclosure · ritual preparations for night · ring recognition · religious persecution and toleration · religious justification · providence and divine governance · prophecy fulfillment · prison visit
Usually: narrative (3) · confronting death (3) · speech or oration (2) · reconciliation (2) · detachment (2) · irony (2) · reverence (2) · reunion (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · the test or trial (1)
Penelope and Ulysses reconcile by the bed-test, then Ulysses explains Teiresias’s prophecy about his final journey and peaceful death, while Minerva delays dawn and the household prepares to sleep.
PENELOPE EVENTUALLY RECOGNISES HER HUSBAND—EARLY IN THE MORNING ULYSSES, TELEMACHUS, EUMAEUS, AND PHILOETIUS LEAVE THE TOWN. Euryclea now went upstairs laughing to tell her mistress that her dear husband had come home. Her aged knees became young again and her feet were nimble for joy as she went up to her mistress and bent over her head to speak to her. “Wake up Penelope, my dear child,” she exclaimed, “and see wit…
The old wife justifies her poverty and age, threatens a cuckold fear, then claims she is adaptable and asks him to choose how she will be; he instead lets her govern, restoring harmony.
highe God, — and so hope I, — Grant me His grace to live virtuously: Then am I gentle when that I begin To live virtuously, and waive* sin. *forsake “And whereas ye of povert’ me repreve,* *reproach The highe God, on whom that we believe, In wilful povert’ chose to lead his life: And certes, every man, maiden, or wife May understand that Jesus, heaven’s king, Ne would not choose a virtuous liv…
The pilgrim claims divine justice will punish the woman’s wrongdoing by threatening her husband’s life, and he demands she promise to restore her favor to Tedaldo if he returns from exile alive.
whereas, bethinking them of what they are themselves, and what and how great is the nobility with which God has endowed man above all the other animals, they ought rather to glory in the love which men give them, and hold them most dear, and with all zeal study to please them, that so their love may never fail. In what sort you did so, instigated by the chatter of a friar, some broth-guzzling, pastry-gorging knave wi…
The woman promises to restore Tedaldo, but insists he is dead from knife wounds; the pilgrim reveals Tedaldo’s survival, whereupon Tedaldo returns, confirms Aldobrandino’s survival prospects, and visits the prison.
will restore to him your favour, your love, your tender regard, your intimacy, and reinstate him in the position which he held before you foolishly hearkened to the halfwitted friar." Thus ended the pilgrim; and the lady, who had followed him with the closest attention, deeming all that he advanced very sound, and doubting not that her tribulation was, as he said, in requital of her sin, spoke thus:-- "Friend of God…
Moll decides to reveal the truth to her husband herself; though her mother fears it, Moll plans to manage his reaction gradually, encourages improved harmony, and prepares for the final confession.
time, and it was impossible to reconcile our judgments; many disputes we had about it, but we could never either of us yield our own, or bring over the other. I insisted on my aversion to lying with my own brother, and she insisted upon its being impossible to bring him to consent to my going from him to England; and in this uncertainty we continued, not differing so as to quarrel, or anything like it, but so as not…