Quotes Flashcards
Merchants horrible wife
‘I have a wyf, the worste that may be’
Merchant’s sadness
‘Wepyng and waylying’
January standing
‘a worthy knight’
January description
‘Oold and hoor’
January wealth
‘lived in greet prosperitee’
Januarie nature
‘he folwed his bodily delyt’
Marriage is the best life
‘Noon oother lyf is worth a bene’
Ease of marriage
‘wedlok is so esy and so clene’
Wonder of marriage
‘a paradys’
Glory of marriage
‘to take a wyf is a glorous thyng’
Servant better than a wife
‘a servant dooth moore diligence’
Age of May
‘Her fresshe beautee and hir age tendre’
Young is better
‘bet than old boef is tendre veel’
Wax similie
‘as men may warm wex with handes ply’
May nature
‘faire fresshe May’
Must make consideration before taking a wife
‘it is no childes play to take a wyf withouten avysement’
January is in a trance
‘this Januarie is ravysshed in a traunce’
May during sex
‘stille as stoon’
January skin
‘Lyk to the skyn of a houndfyssh’
Dying for desire
‘so brenneth that he dyeth for desyr’
Lust is met
‘his lust suffice’
Crying
‘he wepeth and he wayleth pitously’
Woman’s treason
‘The treasons whiche that wommen doon to men’
Sex
‘Pullen up the smok and in he throng’
