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A lord is fiercely jealous of his wife, and locks her in a tower, permitting no man to see her and carrying the keys with him always. Far away, a knight dreams of a fair lady, and sets out to find her (in some versions, the lord's wife simultaneously dreams of the knight). He comes to the lord's tower, and sees the lady at her window, and knows it is the woman from his dreams. He bursts into a song of love, and he drops a letter to him, explaining her circumstances. The knight enters the lord's service, makes himself invaluable, and eventually builds a home next to the lady's tower - and creates a hole or tunnel through which he can enter to be with her. She gives him a ring, but when the lord sees the ring on the knight's finger, he recognises it as one he had given to his wife. That night, he asks her for it - but the knight had already returned it to her secretly, and the lord is satisfied. Then, the knight tells the lord that he must return to his own country, and that his beloved has arrived - and introduces the lord to his own wife, dressed elaborately in exotic clothes, as this foreign lady-love. The lord is suspicious at how much this woman resembles his wife, but when he returns to his wife's chambers after the meal, he once again finds her there. So when the knight prepares to depart with his 'beloved' the next day, the lord gives the woman to the knight in marriage, and they sail away; he only later discovers that his own wife has | A lord is fiercely jealous of his wife, and locks her in a tower, permitting no man to see her and carrying the keys with him always. Far away, a knight dreams of a fair lady, and sets out to find her (in some versions, the lord's wife simultaneously dreams of the knight). He comes to the lord's tower, and sees the lady at her window, and knows it is the woman from his dreams. He bursts into a song of love, and he drops a letter to him, explaining her circumstances. The knight enters the lord's service, makes himself invaluable, and eventually builds a home next to the lady's tower - and creates a hole or tunnel through which he can enter to be with her. She gives him a ring, but when the lord sees the ring on the knight's finger, he recognises it as one he had given to his wife. That night, he asks her for it - but the knight had already returned it to her secretly, and the lord is satisfied. Then, the knight tells the lord that he must return to his own country, and that his beloved has arrived - and introduces the lord to his own wife, dressed elaborately in exotic clothes, as this foreign lady-love. The lord is suspicious at how much this woman resembles his wife, but when he returns to his wife's chambers after the meal, he once again finds her there. So when the knight prepares to depart with his 'beloved' the next day, the lord gives the woman to the knight in marriage, and they sail away; he only later discovers that his own wife has disappeared. | ||
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A lord is fiercely jealous of his wife, and locks her in a tower, permitting no man to see her and carrying the keys with him always. Far away, a knight dreams of a fair lady, and sets out to find her (in some versions, the lord's wife simultaneously dreams of the knight). He comes to the lord's tower, and sees the lady at her window, and knows it is the woman from his dreams. He bursts into a song of love, and he drops a letter to him, explaining her circumstances. The knight enters the lord's service, makes himself invaluable, and eventually builds a home next to the lady's tower - and creates a hole or tunnel through which he can enter to be with her. She gives him a ring, but when the lord sees the ring on the knight's finger, he recognises it as one he had given to his wife. That night, he asks her for it - but the knight had already returned it to her secretly, and the lord is satisfied. Then, the knight tells the lord that he must return to his own country, and that his beloved has arrived - and introduces the lord to his own wife, dressed elaborately in exotic clothes, as this foreign lady-love. The lord is suspicious at how much this woman resembles his wife, but when he returns to his wife's chambers after the meal, he once again finds her there. So when the knight prepares to depart with his 'beloved' the next day, the lord gives the woman to the knight in marriage, and they sail away; he only later discovers that his own wife has disappeared.
