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-May visit Damien and he secretly passes her his letter begging her to keep it secret
-May return to January and make her excuses and go and read Damien’s letter in the privy tearing up throwing away the evidence
-She undresses her January can make love to her as she contemplates what to do about Damien
“ but here i leave them working in their wise
“ i dare Nat to yow telle”
- -The narrators voice dominates this passage
-Twice he backs away from offering an opinion chose a technique for dramatic his disapproval
-The same voice however is not squeamish about giving his audience the detail of maze visit to the privy albeit circumlocution and euphemism of January’s requirement that should take off all her clothes
-he backs away from offering a definitive opinion leave an interpretation to the reader
-It doesn’t only maintain a sense of narrative distance but also reflects choice’s characteristic ambivalence and irony inviting the audience to form their own judgement about the encounter
“ hir bossom hid”
-The poem of Courtney love written by Damien are transported from the silk purse by his heart via mays bosom to the privy
-A journey which may be emblematic of the course of both of Me’s relationships
-Both at the outset couch and the sentiments connected with religion and refined feeling
-But both ultimately being concerned with woman as a sexual commodity
“Impression”
-he chose to use the device of traductio
-A single word phrase or idea enters a full text first of all in a metaphorical sense and might occur in a much more prosaic and literal sense
-January wanted a young woman to be like wax so we could malt her to his will now Me has ironically had an impression made on her by Damien
-But both images anticipate the actual impression in wax that may will make of the key to the secret garden in which affair with Damien will be consummated
“ though but his shirt has he as the start” “ lo pity runs soone in gentil herte”
-May remains inscrutable
-She sets off to see Damien promptly and later decides to be his lover however poor he may be
-If the narrator never reports that she has any feelings for either of them men in her life
-In this misogynistic narrative only men experience deeply felt emotion
-Women are alien
- -This makes a statement that pity soon flows in the gentle heart problematic
-It’s generally red as ironic as Me is not gentle that is high class by birth and her motives could be the need to find a more satisfying sexual partner than January
-The narrator is at pain to explore why events occur in the way that they do asserting that nothing happens with that reason while convenient easy suspicion that some things like sexual attraction are simply inexplicable
-However, hear her initially characterised as compassionate responding to Amy suffering shows the idealised view of feminine kindness
“Whom that this displease”
-it reveals her bold defined character she shaping her own desires as demonstrated in her willingness to go against societal norms and marriage expectations
-She’s presented as complex here with showing pity and cunningness
- It shows her departure from the passive traditional roles associated with women in mediaeval literature
“ though what’s his shirt Has he at the start”
-Damien exposition as a low ranking Squire whose poverty is symbolised by his possession of nothing more than his shirt
-This shows defiance of social norms as she prioritises genuine emotion over material wealth
-The statements challenges the rigid class structures of the time and suggests that even love my transcend social and economic boundaries even in the context of the tail it leads to further complications
“ Venus werkes” “ where it by destiny”
-choices illusion to Venus’s works sit situates the encounter within a broader classical tradition that generates love and passion
-by evoking Venus the goddess of love chose and only heightens the emotional stakes but also suggest that these passions are inevitable and natural as the movement of the heavens
- The reference to it being by destiny further reinforces the mediaeval belief in the celestial orchestration of human affairs a common motive and literature of the period
-The astrological detail throughout the tail and the suggestion that the events may have been brought up by destiny chance nature or the stars or point towards an attempt to elevate an obscene Fabio by giving it a moralised universal meaning: the marriage of old age and youth is an unnatural conjunction
