TMT quotes Flashcards
“worthy
knight”
“were it for hoolinesse or
for dotage,/ I kan nat seye”
merchant doesnt know why J married
“for wedlok is so esy and so
clene,/ That in this world it is a paradis”
“whan a man is oold and hoor;/ thanne
is a wyf the fruit of his tresor”
“A trewe servant dooth
more diligence/ Thy good to kepe, than thyn owene wyf”
servant more useful than wife
becomes ironic
“A wyf is Goddes
yifte verraily”
“Marriage is a ful
greet sacrament”
“That wyf is mannes helpe
and his confort;/ His paradis terrestre
“She setth nat ones ‘nay’, whan he saith
‘ye’./ ‘Do this’, seith he; ‘Al redy sire,’ sieth she.”
description on biblical wives
“good conseil”
“I have my body folily despended;/ blessed be God that
it shal been amended/ For I will be, certeyn a wedded man”
“She shal not passe
twenty yeer, certain;/ Oold fissh and yong flessh wolde I have ful fain”
“Right as men may
warm wex with handes plye”
“Than that myn heritage
sholde falle/ In straunge hands”
“I holde youre owene
conseil is the beste.”
Placebo just agreeing with January
Chaucer criticising lack of debate in court
“The youngest man in all this route/ is
bisy ynough to bringen it aboute / To han his wife alone”
“tooke a mirour, polisshed bright,/ And
sette it in a commune market-place,/ Thanne sholde he se ful many a figure pace/ By his mirour”
“for love is blind
alday, and may nat see”
“her middel smal, hire
armes longe and sklendre”
“she may be youre
purgatorie”
