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Siren
The siren sings to put a sailor to sleep, and once he is asleep she kills him. Richard says both the siren and the man are guilty, the siren for enticing the man and the man for trusting himself to her. So it was with her, he says, and while claiming both she and he are guilty of his "killing", offers to accept the whole of the guilt himself. The lady's response to the story of the siren is on folio 240r. [From the Bestiaire d'amour]
Bibliothèque Nationale de France Digitized Manuscripts
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