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The Lais of Marie de France
Marie de France
- Form
- Form Poetry Collection
- Year
- Year 1170
- Originally in
- Originally in Old French
- Pages
- Pages 140
A husband, tired of his wife's nightly excuses, has the nightingale caught and killed and throws the body at her hard enough to bloody her dress. She wraps it in embroidered silk and sends it to the knight who watches from the window opposite, and he seals it in a casket of gold and carries it for the rest of his life.
Whiter she was than any altar lily, and more sweetly flushed than the new born rose in time of summer heat.
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