marriage Flashcards
‘we w - - - - - m - - l - - - - in s - - - - a - - c - - - ‘
‘we wedded men liven in sorwe and care’
ironic as hes only been married for 2 months but acts like he has knowledge
‘ i w - - - - n - - - - - e - - c - - - - in t - - s - - - - ‘
‘i wolde nevere eft comen in the snare’
displays the trap of marriage
‘ t ‘ - - - - - - w - - - - he m - - - - - - w - - - - - be’
‘ t’espien where he mighte wedded be’
his desire for marriage
‘ t - - - - - b - - - - - - lyf t - - - is b - - - - - - an h - - - - - - - - - a - - h - - w - - ‘
‘thilke blisful lyf that is bitwixe an housbounde and his wyf’
blissful life with a wife which contrasts to the prologue in which it was described as prison like
‘ t - - - - - is a w - - t - - f - - - - of h - - t - - - - - ‘
‘thanne is a wyf the fruit of his tresor’
shes a ripe piece of fruit, the right time to get married. symbolic of life, fruit and money
‘ y - - - w - - a - - a f - - - / e - - - - - - - - h - - an h - - - ‘
‘yong wif and a feir / engendren him an heir’
engender
to go to heaven he must get married so he can have sex
he wants her to produce him with an heir
‘ m - - - - - - is a f - - g - - - - s - - - - - - - - ‘
‘mariage is a ful greet sacrament’
further contrast to prologue
religious connotations when ironically his motive is sex!
‘ l - - - w - - t - - w - - , as C - - - - l - - - - h - - c - - - - - - ‘
‘love wel thy wyf, as Crist loved his chirche’
we must love our wife as much as we love church
‘ if t - - - l - - - - - t - - - - - - , t - - - l - - - - - t - - w - - ; no m - - h - - - - - h - - f - - - - - ‘
‘if thou lovest thyself, thou lovest thy wyf; no man hateth his flessh’
well known passage in Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians: conditional - biblical notion that husband and wife are one - one flesh, one form so you should love your wife as you love yourself
‘ v - - - - - - - q - - - - - / m - - - - - - h - - - s - - - - - ‘
‘ vertuous quiete / mariage hony - sweete ‘
virtuous quiet that is honey sweet
irony seeping from this
hes spent time lusting over having a wife and the life
‘ t - - - l - - - - - - m - - - - - - - - - - , s - - - - - - ‘
‘that letteth matrimoigne, sikerly’
cursed man hindering marriage
marriage as an obstacle hindering what you want to say
‘ c - - - - - - i f - - - - in it b - - c - - - a - - c - - - / of a - - - b - - - - - - b - - - ‘
‘certein i finde in it but cost and care / of alle blisses bare’
barren marriage entailing expense and worry but no pleasures. no emotional connection, he cares about money and sex and having a wife as a possession
‘ e - - - - s - - - - a - - b - - - / f - - - - - in h - - l - - - ‘
‘every scrit and bond / feffed in his lond’
shes been bought. legal document. she has access to his legal wealth? ceremony isn’t elaborated upon, very skimmed details after long build up. chaucer displays wedding as incidental to main purpose of fabliaux exposing January’s vanity and stupidity and yet again the never changing deceit of women
‘ t - - - p - - - - M - - - - - , t - - - w - - - - - - us t - - - l - - - w - - - - - - m - - - - of h - - - P - - - - - - - - - a - - h - - M - - - - - - - ‘
‘thou poete Marcian, that writest us that like wedding murie of hire Philologie and him Mercurie’
mocking their marriage with grand references, not like a grand marriage. comic and can’t trust anyone.
‘ w - - - t - - - - - y - - - - - h - - - w - - - - - s - - - - - - - a - - ‘
‘whan tendre youthe hath wedded stouping age’
January thinks this is how marriage should be so he can show off his status and greatness but from outside it looks tatty
