Merchant's quotes 1 Flashcards
What quote describes a particoloured cloth/fashionable fabric?
“In mottelee”
What quote describes an elegant hat from Flanders?
“Flaundrissh bever hat”
What quote is a latinate word which shows that he was so dignified in his behaviour concerning his bargains that no one knew he was in debt?
“chevissaunce”
What quote mimics the Clerk’s Tale?
“Weping and wailing”
What quote shows the disappointment that the Merchant has over his wife?
“I have a wyf, the worste that may be”
What quote shows that the merchant’s wife is defiant?
“shrewe”
What word means trapping?
“snare”
What quote illustrates how pathetic the merchant is?
“sin ye so muchel knowen of that art”
What quote shows that regardless of the merchant’s own pain, he cannot speak more?
“i telle may namoore”
What is the city famous for bankers and brothels?
“lumbardye”
What phrase is ironic and praises January?
“worthy”
What quote shows how January always obeyed his sexual desire for women?
“bodily delit”
What quote suggests that marriage is effortless, which contradicts the merchant’s view?
“for wedlock is so esy and so clene, that in this world it is a paradis”
What quote describes wives as obedient?
“for who kan be so buxom as a wyf?”
What word describes a man whose wife is unfaithful?
“cokewold”
