Chaucer textual quotations Flashcards
How does the Host describe the Merchant?
“worthy man”, “no wight he was in dette”
What does the Merchant call January?
“worthy knight”
Why does January want to take a wife?
“on my pittes brinke”
Why does he want a young wife?
Refers to wife of bath old wives being too smart, wants someone he can mould like “warm wex”
How is Placebo?
“nevere with noon of hem debaat”
What does January have to say about Justinius?
“Straw for thy Senek!”
What does Justinius have to say?
“she may be youre purgatorie”
Who is May?
“smal degree”
How does January pick a wife?
“commune marketplace”
How was the wedding feast?
“Bacus the wyn…Venus laugheth”
How did Damyan fall in love?
“Venus hurt him”
What makes the marital rape ok?
“the bed was with the priest yblessed”
May being uncomfortable
“as stille as stoon”
May rebelling
“time fortunaat”
May turns the tables
“in warm wex”
January in love
“my wyf, my love, my lady free”
January actually just being lusty
“wounded in myn herte”
Tables turned on January
“blind as is a stoon”
Damyan as the serpent
“under a bush”
May is the garden
“fresshe gardyn”
January and Hades
“in his grisly carte he hire fette”
Women are nags
“I yeve it up”
May playing to January’s ego
“a woman in my plit…so greet an appetit”
May using January
“on his bak she stood”
Crude
“Ladies…in he throng”
May and January being the same
“That evere I was so kinde!”
