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Often appears with: public performances · pilgrimages · marriage and betrothal · london absence of husband · festivals, games, and spectacle · dress, ornament, and fashion · courtship planning · costume and fashion
Usually: narrative (1) · temptation (1) · curiosity (1) · wonder (1)
While her husband was in London for Lent, she attended vigilies, processions, sermons, miracle plays, and pilgrimages in festive scarlet dress, planning encounters and later claiming her “fourth husband” died on the bier.
*appointed Therefore made I my visitations To vigilies,* and to processions, *festival-eves<22> To preachings eke, and to these pilgrimages, To plays of miracles, and marriages, And weared upon me gay scarlet gites.* *gowns These wormes, nor these mothes, nor these mites On my apparel frett* them never a deal** *fed **whit And know’st thou why? for th…