Our Pilgrim and the Spouse go door to door
to tell the populace of Doctor's part
in making sick the people of the town,
and also to relay the malady
is not the deadly sort they all do fear,
which settles some whilst other still prefer
t'remain as skeptics til th'infection's gone,
applying prayer as well berating them
for chasing out the Doctor—for they won't
inform them of her death lest they attack— 10
as she's the only one who practises
the art of medicine within the town,
and if the two are wrong on this disease
then many men and women may be doom'd.
But when they come upon concerns as these
they simply move along and hope for best
whilst knocking on the next of doors t'inform
their neighbours of the news they carry forth.
Like this the day is pass'd until it's night
and all the town's been visited by them, 20
who once again assume their room in th'inn
which kind Innkeeper lets them have for free
as he believes their story with the hope
his wife will see tomorrow's breaking dawn.
However, Pilgrim says toward his Spouse
once they're upstairs that he would like to move
into another inn, so both they grab
their bags and slip outside and take the horse
and mule across the town until they find
another place they both can stay the night. 30
And once they have a room and are secure,
our Pilgrim and the Spouse now crawl to bed,
deciding both to celebrate their health
(whereat the Scholars send a party off
t'retrieve the others earlier they sent
along with Spouse and Saunterer who've not
return'd to town for reasons that are clear
on looking back upon this very text).
Embracing flesh, our duo unifies,
but as the two in th'amatory act 40
engage, the Spouse remembers whom with last
she laid and must attempt to hide her guilt,
for she perhaps believes it better she
forgets the situation did occur
to never let her Pilgrim know how she
betray'd him quick as that when th'rock went white.
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As Ever Like the Sun & Moon at War
PoetryA troubled Pilgrim sets upon a road in search by sun and storm of paradise; a vain Pariah's banish'd from his home to render justice by the moonlit night: two individuals who share a flesh, each unalike in methods and beliefs, yet fated consequence...
