Abstract
Abstract There are so many references to hearts in the English Book of Love by Charles d'Orléans that readers may fail to recognize the crucial significance of an exchange of hearts. It is for such a consensual relationship that Charles pleads in both his love affairs, successfully in the first, but unsuccessfully (notwithstanding Ballade 117) in the second. This article considers the various arguments that the lover derives from the exchange-of-hearts trope in support of his pleas to both women—witty arguments, but directed to a most serious end.
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