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The Lord of Caerwent
In “Laüstic,” the married lady is the wife of a knight in St. Malo. She starts a love affair with a neighboring bachelor knight, talking with him through her window in the middle of the night. When her husband questions her about her absences, she claims that a nightingale’s sweet song keeps her awake. In response, her husband traps the nightingale that lives in their garden and kills it before his wife’s eyes. The lady is devastated, knowing she’s lost her pretext for standing by her window at night. She sends the bird’s body to the bachelor knight to remember her by.
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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 Married Lady 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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