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'The Merchant's Tale' OBHs Flashcards

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1
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“And folwed ay…

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…his bodily delyt”

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2
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“His paradis…

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…terrestre”

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3
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“The lusty lyf,….

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…the virtuous quiete”

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4
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“I am…

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…hoor and oold”

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5
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“pittes…

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…brinke”

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6
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‘Oold fissh…

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…and yong flessh”

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7
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“For love is blind alway…

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…and may nat see”
- proleptic irony, become blind later

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8
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“Hir fresshe beautee…

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…and hir age tendre”

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9
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“That I shall have myn…

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…hevene in erthe heere”

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10
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“The bride was broght abedde…

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…as stille as stoon”

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11
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“so chaunteth he…

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…and craketh”

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12
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“The slakke skin…

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…aboute his nekke shaketh”

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13
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“She preyseth nat his pleying…

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…worth a bene”

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14
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“He made a gardyn,…

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…walled al with stoon”

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15
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“for of the smale wiket…

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…he baar alwey of silver a cliket”

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16
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“Is woxen…

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…blind”

17
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“men may warm wex…

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…with hands plye”
- wants to mould his ideal wife
- comp. May: “In warm wex hath emprented the clyket”

18
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“He (Damyan) was so ravysshed….

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…on his lady May”
- Parallel to Januarie > ‘This Januarie is ravysshed in a traunce’

19
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“I have a wyf,…

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…the worste that may be”
- Merchant

20
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“She is a shrewe…

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…at al”
- Merchant

21
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“Thise monthes…

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…two”

22
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“Were it for hoolinesse…

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…or for dotage; I kan nat seye”

23
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“Noone oother…

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…lyf… is worth a bene”

24
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“Mariage honey-…

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…sweete”

25
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“For who kan be so…

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…buxom as a wyf”
(obedient)

26
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“Mariage is a ful…

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…greet sacrement”

27
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“I feele my lymes…

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…stark and suffisaunt”

28
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“And folwed ay his…

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…bodily delit / On wommen, ther as was his appetit”

29
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“Deffie Theofraste,…

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…and herke me”

30
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“t’ encreessen…

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…his corage”

31
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“I wol no womman..

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…thritty yeer of age; It is but bene-straw and greet forage”

32
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“She shal nat…

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…passe twenty yeer, certayn”

33
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May won’t lie

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“I shal nat lie”

34
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“she may be…

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…your purgatorie”

35
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“she was feffed…

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…in his lond”

36
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“Amonges a thousand men yet foond I oon,…

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…, But of wommen alle foond I noon”

37
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“Notable of youre…

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…untrouthe and brotilnesse”
- Pluto to Proserpina

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