Poem: ‘Of Two Knights Stationed in Neighbouring Castles’
Simon Armitage, 20 August 1992
After Boccaccio
buddies through dozens of scrapes and hassles,
the first knight thought he was happily wed, the second man slept in a single bed.
One morning, at leisure, the married man was walking his dog by the parish dam
and spied his wife across the water, and waited a while, and caught her
in the arms of his friend – naked, consenting. To say the least this really upset him
so...