... give her news of her lost husband, and in return Alcyone will give to Juno "sacrifise/And hooly youres become I shal/With good wille, body, herte, and al:" (lines 114-116) "in short, to become the goddess's acolyte. Since Juno was, among other things, the goddess of wives and of marriage, she would welcome a pious wife (now widow) into her ... referenced. The top-to-bottom physical description of the Black Knight's lady is a poetic convention of the time. The blazon, as this was called, is later mocked by Shakespeare in Sonnet 106, when he puts the parts out of order ("Of hand, of foot,...

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