Merchant quotes Flashcards by Caroline Mason-Gordon

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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’

January jealous

'fyr of jalousie'

January control

'hond on hire alway'

May lust

'she moot outher dyen sodeynly or elles she moot han hym'

Key wax

'in warm wex hath emprented the clyket'

January love

'that art the creature that i best love'

Sex

'gan pullen up the smok, and in he throng!'

May's age

'tendre of age'

January's age

'oold and hoor'

Damian is...

'gentil' 'sike' 'sensable'

Finger signs

'and with her fynger signes made she'

May is...

'faire fresshe May'

January can't wait to have sex

'faste in armes take...his fresshe May'

Damian irony

'he is a gentil squier'