Merchant's Tale

Question 1

Marriage

Answer 1

“We wedded men liven in sorwe and care”

Question 2

Merchant, Marriage

Answer 2

“Of myn owene soore, For soory herte, I telle may namoore

Question 3

Marriage, Religion

Answer 3

“Wedlock is so esy and so clene, That in this world it is a paradis”

Question 4

Marriage, Religion

Answer 4

“A wyf is Goddes yifte verraily;”

Question 5

Marriage, Religion

Answer 5

“Preying oure Lord to grauten him that he Mighte ones knowe of thilke blisful lyf That is bitwixe an housbonde and his wyf”

Question 6

Marriage

Answer 6

“A wif axeth full many observaunce”

Question 7

Religion

Answer 7

“Love wel thy wyf, as Christ loved in his chirche”

Question 8

Religion

Answer 8

“Withouten wo and stryf, That I shal have myn hevene in erthe heere”

Question 9

Religion

Answer 9

“So wisly God my soule bringe in blisse”

Question 10

Merchant Description

Answer 10

“With forked berd”

Question 11

The Merchant (Chaucer Shade)

Answer 11

“Sooth to seyn, I noot how men him calle”

Question 12

Januarie Background

Answer 12

“sixty yeer a wyflees man was hee”

Question 13

Januarie Age

Answer 13

“Myn herte and alle my lymes been as grene As laurer thurgh the yeer is for to sene”

Question 14

Januarie (Misgivings)

Answer 14

“It is an heigh corage Of any man that stapes is in age To take a young wif”

Question 15

Januarie creepiness (May sympathy)

Answer 15

“And seyde hir clothes dide him encombraunce And she obeyeth, be hire lief or looth”

Question 16

May Description

Answer 16

“Unto som mayde fair and tendre of age”

Question 17

May full description

Answer 17

“Hir fresshe beautee and hir age tendre, Hir middel smal, hire armes longer and sklendre”

Question 18

May Cravings

Answer 18

“I moste han of the peres that I see, Or I moot die”

Question 19

May excuses

Answer 19

“As me was taught, to heele with youre eyen, Was no thing bet, to make yow see, Than struggle with a man upon a tree.”

Question 20

Placebo

Answer 20

“His conseil sholde passe his lordes wit”

Question 21

Justinus

Answer 21

“It is an heigh corage Of any man that stapen is in age To take a yong wif; by my fader kin, Youre herte hangeth on a joly pin!”

Question 22

Damyan letter

Answer 22

“in secrees wise his puts and eek his bille, in which that he ywriten jade his wille”

Question 23

Damyan wealth

Answer 23

“Though he namoore hadde than his sherte”

Question 24

Damyan sexiness

Answer 24

“He swyved thee, I saugh it with myne yen”

Question 25

Damyan- visual

Answer 25

“Lo where he sit, the lechour, in the tree”