Chaucer Quotations Flashcards
Who says this ‘I have a wyf, the worst that may be’?
The Merchant
What is marriage referred to as?
‘Holy boond’
‘Oold fissh And…
Yong flessh’
Quotation to show that January believes he can mound his wife
‘Warm wex with handes plye’
‘Though I be hoor…
I fare as dooth a tree’
Quotation to show the role of women
‘To love and serve’
‘She may be your…
Purgatorie’
Example of the same language being used for January and Damyan’s lust
‘Ravisshed’
When Damyan is described as young like may
‘Damyan sitteth… among the fresshe leves grene’
‘A man may do no sinne with his wyf…
Ne hurte himselven with his owene knyf’
Example of fabilaux and bathos (short crude vowel sounds)
‘In he throng’
May’s passivity and January’s blindness, sibilance and elongated vowels
‘Stille as stoon’
‘As blind as a stoon’
Wedlock is?????
‘Wedlock is so esy and so clene’
Cuckold
‘For thogh the feend to hire ycoupled were’
tendre youthe hath….
wedded stouping age
were it for hooliness…
or for dotage
wedlock is so esy…
and so clene
his paradis…
terreste
what is damian struck by
‘venus fyre’
upon his bare knees oughte all his lyf thanken his god…
that him hath sent a wyf
mariage honey…
sweete
so myrie a …
wedded man
damian and may in the tree
‘in he throng’
Who is this about : ‘she is a shrewe at al’
The merchant’s wife
Who said this : ‘we wedded men live in sorwe’
The merchant
Quotation to describe Damyan
‘A servant traitour’
how does january descirbe himself
‘freendes, I am hoor and oold’
for love is blynd…
and may nat see
