Merchant quotes Flashcards by Caroline Mason-Gordon | Brainscape

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merchant’s wife

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‘I have a wyf, the worste that may be’

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January knight

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‘a worthy knight’

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January money

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‘lived in greet prosperitee’

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January lust

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‘folwed his bodily delyt’

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January bean

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‘noon oother lyf…is worth a bene’

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Marriage great

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‘a paradys’

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God’s gift

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‘a wife is Goddes yifte verraily’

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Old beef

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‘bet than old boef is the tendre veel’

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Women wax

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‘as men may warm wex with handes plye’

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Love is blind

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‘for love is blynde alday, and may nat see’

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May appearance

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‘hir myddel smal, hire armes longe and sklendre’

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May money

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‘of smal degree’

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Marriage deal

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‘every scrit and bond’

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Wedded

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‘whan tendre youth hath wedded stoupyng age’

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Damian snake

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‘lyk to the naddre’

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January viagra

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‘drynketh ypocras, clarree, and vernage’

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May wedding night

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‘the bryde was broght abedde as stille as stoon’

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January’s beard

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‘lyk to the skyn of houndfyssh’

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January’s neck

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‘slakke skyn aboute his nekke shaketh’

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May bean

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‘she preyseth nat his pleyyng worth a bene’

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Damian desire

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‘dyeth for desyr’

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Heaven or hell

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‘or wheither hire thoughte it paradys or helle’

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May love

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‘to love hym best of any creature’

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Damian poor

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‘though he namoore hadde than his sherte’

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January jealous

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‘fyr of jalousie’

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January control

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‘hond on hire alway’

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May lust

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‘she moot outher dyen sodeynly or elles she moot han hym’

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Key wax

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‘in warm wex hath emprented the clyket’

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January love

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‘that art the creature that i best love’

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Sex

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‘gan pullen up the smok, and in he throng!’

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May’s age

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‘tendre of age’

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January’s age

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‘oold and hoor’

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Damian is…

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‘gentil’
‘sike’
‘sensable’

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Finger signs

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‘and with her fynger signes made she’

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May is…

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‘faire fresshe May’

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January can’t wait to have sex

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‘faste in armes take…his fresshe May’

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Damian irony

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‘he is a gentil squier’