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The Merchant’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The story draws on a folktale of familiar theme, that of an old man whose young wife is unfaithful. Old Januarie is deceived by his young wife, May, and her lover, Damyan, after Januarie suddenly goes blind. The lovers sneak up to the branches of a pear tree above Januarie’s head and begin to make love. An enraged Pluto instantly restores the old man’s sight, but Proserpina allows May to outwit him by explaining that she was fighting with Damyan in the tree because she ...(100 of 113 words)

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