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-Pluto is outraged at what maze doing and restores January site
-January cries out at what he sees after looking up
-May claim she had been struggling with a man in a tree to restore his site
-January disputes the nature of the struggle but may report that if he indeed thinks he saw having sex with Damien and medicine has not worked and his site is still faulty
-He apologises and she warns him. Someone who sites is just being restored like someone nearly awakened may begin by misjudging what they see and it will be that way for some days.
-She jumps out the tree he kisses and hugged her stroke her belly and takes her home to the palace and that’s the en
“ i se.. tanke be god” “ struggle with a man upon a tree”
-in the final announcement of the plot the far-fetched of what is going on provides a comic parallel to January gluability which seems to know no bounds
- Humour derives from the imagined physical circumstances in which the debate takes place from the improbability of maze argument and January’s womanless wailing
“ as does the mother whan the child shall die”
Chaucers woefully inappropriate similie comparing January to a woman who’s child has died
- It’s not only terminally and sexing for him but a gloriously incongruous literary reference
-In mediaeval biblical place such as the mystery place one of the most dramatic moments occurs with the lamentations of the mothers of the baby boys murdered by her soldier
-In such place all the female parts are played by men and the implications of the reference are that January is both womanish and overdramatic in his response
Damien on the other hand is reduced to a fellow in a pear tree a mechanical function of the plot
“ she leap down fro the tree” “ for i have maad yow see”
-me is in full control at the end of the story with her supernaturally assistive presence of mind in circumstances
-And vigourous only lady like leap down from the tree connotes
- However there are a number of ways which the ending of the tail varies from the Common fabliau conclusion in which the whole edifice of deceit comes tumbling down and the characters are allowed to know possibility of an afterlife
-Throughout the merchant tale there have been suggestions that are serious lesson may be drawn in the particular case
-I’ll buy a whole negative one and that is more farcical romp
- In typical fabliau the whole disease exposed but here May is victorious with no negative consequences
“ ne may Nat suddenly see so well”
-accordingly the final paragraph contains hints of foreboding for the future
-Mayor January that his eyes may go on deceiving him
-Suggesting that discovery has not cut off the means for her relationship with Damien to continue
“ hir womb he stroketh hire ful softe”
-hinting again that she is pregnant
-But the reader is left to wonder was she pregnant when she claimed to crave pears or is she pregnant now
- And if she turns out to be who will inherit old January’s wealth, which is the anxiety with which the tail began
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