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Often appears with: marriage and betrothal · wedding ceremony · sexual consummation anxiety · romantic love · religious persecution and toleration · music and festivities · lost happiness after awakening · isle of pleasure · festivals, games, and spectacle · fate, destiny, and necessity · fable, romance, and storytelling · dream vision
Usually: narrative (2) · wonder (2) · detachment (1)
“Hymeneus, that god of wedding is, Saw never his life so merry a wedded man.” Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems · vivid
January and May are formally married by a priest in church, followed by a feast with music, wine, and wedding rites, while January is captivated by May and worries about consummation the first night.
Bath, if ye have understand, Of marriage, which ye have now in hand, Declared hath full well in little space; Fare ye now well, God have you in his grace.” And with this word this Justin’ and his brother Have ta’en their leave, and each of them of other. And when they saw that it must needes be, They wroughte so, by sleight and wise treaty, That she, this maiden, which that *Maius hight,* *was named May* As …
A dream-vision culminates in a wedding feast on the Isle of Pleasure, an embassy that brings back the poet’s mistress, and then waking to discover only tapestry images of the very bliss he sought.
as the knight, Unto perfect joy and heal, That *floating they were in such weal* *swimming in such As folk that woulden in no wise happiness* Desire more perfect paradise. On the morrow a general assembly was convoked, and it was resolved that the wedding feast should be celebrated within the island. Messengers were sent to strange realms, to invite kings, queens, duchesses, and princesses; and a special embassy was…