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- 1'she were of smal degree.'Told that she's of a lower social class, important as she will undermine her social class later.
- 2Suffiseth hym her yowthee and hir beauteeShows how the gap in social status is filled by her beauty.
- 3'She was lyk the bright morwe of may.'Calenderial theme- May associated with youngness but also hunting.
- 4'He rubbeth hire aboute hir tendre face.'Tenderness, her juvenility contrasts immensely with his harshness exhibits the barrier between them.
- 5'preyseth his playing not worth a bene.'Distaste for his sexual performance this note shows the reader the distinction between May and January and this gap ins sexual fulfilment becomes her ultimate telos to cheat.
- 6That Januarie hath wedded fresshe May In two of Tawr, was into Cancre glyden;Astrological allusion emphasises their incompatibility, wedding took place when May was in conjunction with venus Mars- god of war, Venus god of love- proleptic of their relationship
- 7'And she obeyeth be hire lief or looth.'She obeyed whether she wants to or not, exhibits her submissive role.
- 8'Gentil May fulfilled of pite graunteth hym hire verray gracee.'She grants him her full grace.
- 9'hand hard him twiste so secrely.'She takes him by the hand and squeezed it hard.
- 10’Wept fresshe May, that loveth Damyan so benyngnely,’May loves Damyan graciously ironic that she shows no sorrow for her husbands loss.
- 11'Privee signes wiste he know what she mente.'Theres a secret communication between Damyan and May, deceivable.
- 12'In warm wex hath emprented the clyket.'Motif which was introduced much earlier in the poem of impression metaphor is now turned into a literal act his is called a traductio.
- 13she bigan to weepe'Weep' sadness,
- 14'As wel as ye and also myn honour and my wyfhoood thilke tendre flour.'Compares herself to a 'flower' harmless and beautiful,
- 15'Whan the priest to yow my body bond' 'If evere I do unto my kyn that shame put me in a sak and in the nexte ryver do me drenche' 'Gentil woman'Religious lexis referring to the vow she made to to the 'priest' her deceit is seen in her attempt to conceal her treachery. 'Gentil' refers to a nobility, self deceit as May is of a 'smal degree'
- 16'Coughen she bigan, and with hir fynger signes made she.'Her resentment is clearly bathetic as despite her vow to be faithful she engages secret codes with Damyan. This encounterment is clearly derived from Boccaccio's story, Lydia is enchanted by her husbands squire Pyrrhus proclaimed that the pear tree was enchanted and his master climbed up he had sex with Lydia.
- 17'Yeven hire suffisant answere and alle wommen after.'Vows to enable May to justify her actions draws back on idea that women were sinister and plotting.
- 18'He was a lechchour and an idolater.'Hominem attack to discredit Solomon, 'what rekketh me of youre auctoritees.'
Her expletives emphasising her fury. - 19'Wommen ful trewe ful goode witnesse on hem that dwelle in Cristes house.'Religious lexis.
- 20'I muste han of the peres that I see or I moot die.'Mays deceit is exhibited through her calculated plan of hoaxing a pregnancy and hyperbolically demanded a pear.
- 21'So I my foot myghte sette upon your back.'If my foot is set upon your back.
- 22'Have pacient and resoun in your mynde,' (.....) I 'Struggle with a man on a tree.'Classical element of fabliaux lies to justify actions
- 23'He that mysconceyveth he mysdemeth.'P
- 24'And on hire wombe he stroketh hire ful softe.'Pregnancy- he;s ensnared her back.
- 25'Now such a wyf I pray god kepe me fro.'Host's view- Merchant has persuaded the listeners the reality of marriage.
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