'The Merchant's Tale' OBHs Flashcards
“And folwed ay…
…his bodily delyt”
“His paradis…
…terrestre”
“The lusty lyf,….
…the virtuous quiete”
“I am…
…hoor and oold”
“pittes…
…brinke”
‘Oold fissh…
…and yong flessh”
“For love is blind alway…
…and may nat see”
- proleptic irony, become blind later
“Hir fresshe beautee…
…and hir age tendre”
“That I shall have myn…
…hevene in erthe heere”
“The bride was broght abedde…
…as stille as stoon”
“so chaunteth he…
…and craketh”
“The slakke skin…
…aboute his nekke shaketh”
“She preyseth nat his pleying…
…worth a bene”
“He made a gardyn,…
…walled al with stoon”
“for of the smale wiket…
…he baar alwey of silver a cliket”
“Is woxen…
…blind”
“men may warm wex…
…with hands plye”
- wants to mould his ideal wife
- comp. May: “In warm wex hath emprented the clyket”
“He (Damyan) was so ravysshed….
…on his lady May”
- Parallel to Januarie > ‘This Januarie is ravysshed in a traunce’
“I have a wyf,…
…the worste that may be”
- Merchant
“She is a shrewe…
…at al”
- Merchant
“Thise monthes…
…two”
“Were it for hoolinesse…
…or for dotage; I kan nat seye”
“Noone oother…
…lyf… is worth a bene”
“Mariage honey-…
…sweete”
“For who kan be so…
…buxom as a wyf”
(obedient)
“Mariage is a ful…
…greet sacrement”
“I feele my lymes…
…stark and suffisaunt”
“And folwed ay his…
…bodily delit / On wommen, ther as was his appetit”
“Deffie Theofraste,…
…and herke me”
“t’ encreessen…
…his corage”
“I wol no womman..
…thritty yeer of age; It is but bene-straw and greet forage”
“She shal nat…
…passe twenty yeer, certayn”
May won’t lie
“I shal nat lie”
“she may be…
…your purgatorie”
“she was feffed…
…in his lond”
“Amonges a thousand men yet foond I oon,…
…, But of wommen alle foond I noon”
“Notable of youre…
…untrouthe and brotilnesse”
- Pluto to Proserpina
