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-Mary is very beautiful and January cannot wait to get her into bed
-She worries she will not be able to sustain his sexual energy
-January finds a way to get everyone to leave
-Everyone is happy about the marriage apart from Damien who is smitten at the site of Me and he’s nearly mad with a desire
-Damien is condemned to suffer until May takes pity on him and then never pauses to exclaim on the particular dangers of the enemy within
“Full of joy and blisse is every man all but a squire highte damian”
-The hyperbole inflated rhetoric which characterise the narrator description of the wedding feast no rises to a comic climax as Damien January household servant falls madly in love with may
“ ye shull it Nat susteen” “ Paris did Elyne” “
The comparisons with legendary lovers becoming increasingly laughable in their inappropriateness
-january is no Paris of Troy
-However it mirrors in that Helen didn’t have much choice just like may
-Outlining the power differences in marriage of the time
“Queen Esther” “ lete him wepe ynough and pleyne till fresh may wol take pity on his Peyne”
-May is compared to Esther, the old Testament model of meek wifley beauty
- yet the reader is presently told that Damien must suffer the pains of unrequited love until not unless she takes pity on him
-Also parallels maze on happiness creating alignment between the discontent and foreshadowing alliance between the two
-The illusion of May elevate her beauty to legendary status and invites the readers to compare her lower with figures known the captivating charm
“Very pain he was ny wood”
-choose the roles in the refined language of Courtney Love to describe Damien such an attraction to May elevating the evacuation of a younger servant for a girl plucked off the street to the level of nights and ladies of high romance
- He mingles the nonrealistic exaggerated sentiment of romance and the intervention of the gods incorporate form with homely details associated with the normal Medieval town life
- damien‘s anguish is described as very hyperbolic reflecting that trope of love while January focuses on pleasure
“O perilous fire/ o familiar foo that his service bedeth/ o servant traitor false hoomly hewe (domestic servant)”
-rhetorical device, ‘ is recommended by manual of style with which choice is known to have been familiar a suitable only for such context as funeral orientations for the monarch
- The imagery of fire suggests uncontrollable passion and foreshadows the destructive consequences of Damien‘s lost
-Damien being a false servant highlights the instability of the household relationships and foreshadows the betrayal to come
“ naddre in bossom sly untrwew”
-The imagery of a snake linked to Damien’s deceit
-Also reminiscent of the serpent in the Bible
-What May is going to play Mary to January’s old Joseph or Eve to his Adam begins to resolve itself here
- Damien is compared to an ad the guys is taken by the devil in the garden of Eden when Eve was tempted into eating the forbidden fruit in the architectural act of wifely betrayal
- foreshadowing mays betrayal in the fruit tree in the garden
“Bright morwe of may”
-this reference plays with both her name and symbolising youth and beauty
-This reinforces the contrast between old and young
-written in rhymed couplets
-A form that lens both rhythmically fluid and a sense of controlled order
-This formal structure contrasts with the chaotic, unpredictable nature of the emotions and events described therefore heightening that ironic tension between appearance and reality
