storytime w/ marie

excerpts from the lais of marie de france*,

which we have been assigned to read for class tomorrow

*marie de france (late 12th century) = earliest known french woman poet

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✶ "but nature had done him such a grievous wrong... she showed no visible interest in love and was thus considered a lost cause by stranger and friend alike." 

✶ "such is the perversity of age."

✶ "but love has now pierced him to the quick and his heart was greatly disturbed... he had completely forgotten his homeland."

✶ "... no matter the consequences."

✶ "he was afraid that, if he spoke to her of his emotions, she would hate him and send him away."

✶ "but fortune, never unmindful of her duties, can soon turn her wheel. one man takes a fall, another rises..."

✶ "listen to me! i have discovered a friend in whom i thought i had lost forever."