THE MERCHANT'S TALE
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"...A sixty year
old knight named January who lived in Lombardy, Italy had lived many years of
wantonness but suddenly he had a strong desire to get married with a beautiful,
young maiden and have a son to heir. He discussed the situation with his
brothers. One of them named Placebo, told January he could make his own
decision without taking anyone’s opinion; on the other hand, Justinus was
completely against of his decision of marriage, he said to January that women
are bad and unfaithful.
™January still
decided to get married; he chose a girl named May. She was a very beautiful and
“innocent” twenty year old woman. January once again talked to his brothers,
Justinus tried January to regret about his decision but he gave up and left.
January got married in a lavish, luxurious wedding in where he was quite
anxious for his first night in bed with May. The feasting was pure happiness;
the guests danced and sang all night long. The knight’s squire Damian
immediately fell in love with May. January couldn’t wait any longer and asked
all the guests to leave the house. After the priest blessed the bridal bed,
January took May and made love to her. May wasn’t impressed, otherwise she
was upset about her husband bed skills and quickly went off to sleep.
Four days
alone passed by for the new married couple, then January noticed the absence of
Damian and asked what was happened to him. He was informed that Damian had been
sick for days. January told May to visit him with the ladies of the court to
cheer him up. When they visited Damian, he gave May a letter declaring how
deeply in love he was with her. After reading the letter, May was full of pity
and decided to give back a letter to Damian declaring the same words. Time
later, Damian recovered from his illness.
™January’s
happiness didn’t last long because he lost his eye-sight, for that reason he
became very jealous and possessive with his young wife, he always feared he
could be deceived. May was too upset she couldn’t send messages to Damian
anymore, but finally she could get Damian working into January’s personal
garden and one day she told him to hide in the pear tree. At the same time this
was happening God Pluto and his wife Proserpina were watching the whole scene,
he started denouncing the disloyalty of women.
™Pluto decided
to heal January’s eye-sight; at the very moment May was betraying him
Proserpina made May give the perfect answer to her husband. May climbed up the
tree to “pluck a pear” but she really embraced Damian and he made love to her.
At that precise moment January’s eye-sight was restored and he saw the
unfaithful embrace of Damian and his wife, he started to cry but May said to
him she was only trying to restore his eye-sight by doing that. May told
January his eyes were too weak to see with brightness. January was convinced
with May’s response and he only embraced her..."
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By the way is my favorite Tale because it is very funny and interesting.
Hope you enjoy as much I do! (:
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