A Merchant Tale Quotes

Question 1

The Merchants’ physical description (presents his wealth)

Answer 1

‘Flaundrissh bever hat’
‘boots clasped faire and fetisly

Question 2

The Merchant’s duplicit nature

Answer 2

‘forked berd’
‘no wight that he was in dette’
‘i noot how men calle’

Question 3

The Merchant’s critique of his wife/marriage

Answer 3

‘the worste that may be’
‘feend hire ycopled were… she wolde overmacche’
‘shrewe’

Question 4

The Merchant’s ideal woman

Answer 4

‘Grisildis grete pacience’

Question 5

The merchants negative of marriage (he is trapped)

Answer 5

‘Were I unbounden also I moot thee’

Question 6

The Merchant’s self pity on marriage and married men

Answer 6

‘we wedded men live in sorwe and care’

Question 7

The Merchant’s ideal woman (she be patient)

Answer 7

‘Griselda’s great patience’

Question 8

Januraie’s positive description (by the Merchant)

Answer 8

“worthy knight’
‘sixty yeers’
from ‘Lomnbardy’
‘greet prosperitee’

Question 9

Januaries sexual appetite description

Answer 9

‘folwed ay his bodily delyt on wommen’

Question 10

Januraie’s need for a wife and the reason

Answer 10

‘Praying oure Lord to graunten him…..lyf bitwixe an housbonde and his wyf’

‘engendren hym an heir’

Question 11

Januarie view on marriage irony (foreshadow)

Answer 11

‘wedlock is so esy and so clene’
‘this world it is a paradis’
paradis-refects Garden of Eden (Dayamn is the Serpent May is Eve)
Janurie cuckholded