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Key Quotes Flashcards

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‘Upon his heed…

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… a Flaundrissh bever hat, His bootes clasped faire and fetisly.’

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2
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‘Ther wiste no…

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… wight that he was in dette’

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3
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‘Weping and…

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… wailing’

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4
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‘She is a…

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… shrewe at al.’

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5
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‘A worthy knight…

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… that born was of Pavie, In which he lived in greet prosperitee’

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6
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‘For who kan be…

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… so buxom as a wyf?’

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‘To take a wif…

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… it is a glorious thing, And namely whan a man is oold and hoor’

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7
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‘He which that hath no…

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… wyf, I holde him shent; He liveth helplees and al desolat’

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8
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‘So buxom and so…

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… virtuous is she, They moste nedes live in unitee’

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9
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‘That hie God,…

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… when he hadde Adam maked, And saugh him a allone, bely-naked; God of his grete goodnesse seyde than, “Lat us now make an helpe unto this man Lyk to himself” and thanne He made him Eve’

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10
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‘The lusty…

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… lyf, the virtuos quiete’

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11
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‘Unto som…

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… mayde fair and tendre of age’

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12
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‘Ne children sholde…

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… I none upon hire geten; Yet were me levere houndes had me eten, Than that myn heritage sholde fall In straunge hand’

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13
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‘I have now been…

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… a court-man al my lyf, And God it woot, though I unworthy be, I have stonden in ful greet degree’

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14
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‘As whoso tooke a mirour…

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polissed bright, And sette it in a commune market-place’

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15
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‘For love is…

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… blinde alday, and may nat see’

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16
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‘Which that of beautee…

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… had greet renoun, Al were it so she were of smal degree: Suffiseth him hir yowthe and hir beautee’

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17
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‘Ther may no man…

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… han parfite blisses two- This to seye, in erthe and eek in hevene’

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18
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‘They wroghten so…

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… by sly and wys tretee’

19
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‘If I yow tolde…

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… of every scrit and bond’

20
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‘The bride was

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… broght abedde as stille as stoon’

21
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‘He lulleth…

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… hire, he kisseth hire ful ofte; With thikke brustles of his berd unsofter, Lyk to the skin of houndfish, sharp as brere’

22
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‘He rubbeth…

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… hire about her tendre face’

23
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‘Thus laboureth…

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… he til that the day gan dawe’

24
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‘And after that he sang…

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… ful liude and cleere, And kiste his wif, and made wantown cheere’

25
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‘Fresshe May heeld…

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… hire chambre unto the fourthe day’

26
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‘So brenneth that he…

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… dieth for desir, For which he putte his lyf in aventure’

27
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‘But prively…

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… a penner gan he borwe’

28
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‘And in the…

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… privee softely it caste’

29
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‘And sotilly this lettre…

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… doun she threste under his pilwe, rede it if him leste. She taketh him by the hand, and harde him twiste’

30
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‘Shoop him to live…

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… ful deliciously. His housinge, his array, as honestly To his degree was maked as a kings […] He made a gardyn, walled al with stoon’

31
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‘He baar alwey of silver a clicket…

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… with which, whan that him leste, he it unshette’

32
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‘He in the gardyn…

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… parfourned hem and spedde’

33
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‘Allas, this noble…

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… Januarie free, Amidde his lust and his prosperitee, Is woxen blind, and that al sodeynly’

34
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‘But natheless, by writing to…

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… and fro, And privee sugnes, wiste he what she mente’

35
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‘In warm wex…

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… hath emprented the clicket That januarie bar of the samle wiket’

36
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‘My white…

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… spouse’

37
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‘Why speke ye thus?…

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… But men been evere untrewe’

38
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‘The tresons…

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… which that wommen doon to man’

39
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‘That I shal yeven…

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… hire suffisant answere, and alle wommen after, for hir sake; that though they be in any gilt ytake’

40
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‘He was a lecchour…

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… and an idolastre’

41
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‘May han to fruit…

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… so greet and appetit that she may dien, bust she of it have’

42
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‘“Allas” quod he…

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…“that I ne had heer a knave That koude climbe”’

43
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‘He stoupeth…

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…down, and on his bak she stood’

44
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‘Gan pullen…

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… up the smok, and in he throng’

45
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‘Lo, which sleights…

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…and subtilitees In wommen been. For ay as bisy as bees Been they, us sely men for to deceyve, And from the soothe evere wol they weyve’

The Merchant's Tale (2 decks)

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