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The Married Lady
In “Laüstic,” the bachelor knight, who lives in the region of St. Malo, begins an affair with a married lady, the wife of the fellow knight next door, talking with her through his window at night. As an excuse, the lady tells her husband that she stands by the window listening to the garden’s nightingale each night. After her husband spitefully kills the nightingale, she sends the knight the bird’s body. He places the bird’s body in a golden casket, which he carries around from that day forward.
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VIII. Laüstic
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When the lord heard what she said, he gave a spiteful, angry laugh and devised a plan to ensnare the nightingale. […] When they had taken the nightingale, it was handed over, still alive, to the lord […] She asked her husband for the bird, but he killed it out of spite, breaking its neck wickedly with his two hands. He threw the body at the lady, so that the front of her tunic was bespattered with blood[.]
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The Bachelor Knight Quotes in The Lais of Marie de France
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VIII. Laüstic
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When the lord heard what she said, he gave a spiteful, angry laugh and devised a plan to ensnare the nightingale. […] When they had taken the nightingale, it was handed over, still alive, to the lord […] She asked her husband for the bird, but he killed it out of spite, breaking its neck wickedly with his two hands. He threw the body at the lady, so that the front of her tunic was bespattered with blood[.]
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