THE MERCHANT’S
TALE
A sixty year old knight named January who lived in
Pavia, Italy had lived many years of wantonness but suddenly he had a strong
desire to get married with a beautiful, young maiden and have a son to heir. He
discussed the situation with his brothers. One of them named Placebo, told
January he could make his own decision without taking anyone’s opinion; on the
other hand, Justinus was completely against of his decision of marriage, he
said to January that women are bad and unfaithful. January still decided to get
married; he chose a girl named May. She was a very beautiful and “innocent”
twenty year old woman. January once again talked to his brothers, Justinus
tried January to regret about his decision but he gave up and left. January got
married in a lavish, luxurious wedding in where he was quite anxious for his
first night in bed with May. The feasting was pure happiness; the guests danced
and sang all night long. The knight’s squire Damian immediately fell in love
with May. January couldn’t wait any longer and asked all the guests to leave
the house. After the priest blessed the bridal bed, January took May and made
love to her. May wasn’t impressed otherwise she was upset about her husband bed
skills and quickly went off to sleep. Four days alone passed by for the new
married couple, then January noticed the absence of Damian and asked what was
happened to him. He was informed that Damian had been sick for days. January
told May to visit him with the ladies of the court to cheer him up. When they
visited Damian, he gave May a letter declaring how deeply in love he was with
her. After reading the letter, May was full of pity and decided to give back a
letter to Damian declaring the same words. Time later, Damian recovered from
his illness. January’s happiness didn’t last long because he lost his
eye-sight, for that reason he became very jealous and possessive with his young
wife, he always feared he could be deceived. May was too upset she couldn’t
send messages to Damian anymore, but finally she could get Damian working into
January’s personal garden and one day she told him to hide in the pear tree. At
the same time this was happening God Pluto and his wife Proserpina were watching
the whole scene, he started denouncing the disloyalty of women. Pluto decided
to heal January’s eye-sight; at the very moment May was betraying him
Proserpina made May give the perfect answer to her husband. May climbed up the
tree to “pluck a pear” but she really embraced Damian and he made love to her.
At that precise moment January’s eye-sight was restored and he saw the
unfaithful embrace of Damian and his wife, he started to cry but May said to
him she was only trying to restore his eye-sight by doing that. May told
January his eyes were too weak to see with brightness. January was convinced
with May’s response and he only embraced her.
THE END
The
merchant´s tale
New Version
A twenty
four beautiful women called Lynn who lived in London, France had been a loyal
woman but unfortunately men hadn’t been gentlemanly with her. Until she meets
an attractive and gentlemen called Palacio. He was younger than her but it
didn’t matter because they fell in love really quickly. They met twice until
they made love in a car watching the thick darkness of a beautiful night.
They
decided to get married but Lynn´s family wasn’t agree with it. They said that
relationship wouldn’t work because Palacio was immature. But Lynn didn’t want
to hear what her parents were saying and they finally got married.
They went
to Hawaii for their honey moon. It was in a pretty beach with dunes around it.
They made love and after that Palacio went to smoke and left her by herself for
more than an hour. Lynn was really frustrated for that situation but she loved
him.
The fourth
day in Hawaii they were partying in the beach and met a beautiful woman called Sabrina.
She was really friendly with the couple but her and Palacio felt attracted each
other. That day Sabrina gave him a paper with her phone number and Palacio
started to text her. On the other hand, Lynn was unware of that situation.
Time past,
Lynn and Sabrina became best friends but Lynn had an accident and she lost her
audition. She got depressed and she used to be at her house all days. She
wouldn’t work, she wouldn’t go outside for walks. Sabrina was always with Lynn
trying to cheer her up.Lynn could see how nice her best friend was with her
husband but she couldn’t hear what they say when talking. Even though she
noticed strange gestures and poses.
Lynn used
to nap at two o´clock pm but that day she couldn’t fall sleep so she went to
the kitchen and she found her husband and Sabrina having sex on the table.
Immediately Palacio stopped and wrote a paper for Lynn which said “baby is not
what you are thinking, I was saying your name but you couldn’t hear me, she
forced me to do this but I love you very much”
Lynn was hesitating
and God gave her a hint to stop that sort of painful situations but she
couldn’t hear either. She finally believed him and embraced him. At the end she
not only lost her audition but she also lost her vision.
The end
