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Merchant's Tale Quotes
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- 1Line 33A worthy knight, that born of Pavie
- 2Line 53For wedlock is so esy and clene, that in this world it is a paradis.'
- 3Line 58Thanne is a wyf the fruit of his tresor.'
- 4Line 98'Deffie Theofraste, and herke me.'
- 5Line 107'He which that hath no wyf, I holde him shent; He liveth helplees and desolat.'
- 6Line 206'Oold fissh and yong flessh wolde I have ful fain.'
- 7Line 219'Right as men may warm wex handes ply.'
- 8line 261'As al day falleth altercacioun, bitwixen freendes in disputisoun.'
- 9Line 355Straw for thy Senek, and for thy proverbes!'
- 10Line 386'For love is blind alday, and may nat see.'
- 11Line 389Hir fresshe beautee and hir age tendre
- 12Line 458Paraunter she may be youre purgatorie
- 13Line 473The Wyf of Bathe, if ye han understonde
- 14Line 485If I yow tolde of every scrit and bod
- 15Line 564Almoost he swelte and swowned ther he stood
- 16Line 610His fresshe May, his paradis his make
- 17Line 612With thikke brustles of his berd unsofte, lyk to the skin of houndfissh, sharp as brere.'
- 18Line 639But God woot what May thoughte in hir herte
- 19Line 743And in the privee softely it caste
- 20Line 767But sooth is this is, how this fresshe May hath take swich impression that day of pitee of this sike Damyan
- 21Line 822Ne Priapus ne mighte nat suffise, though he be god of gardyns, for to telle
- 22Line 896And privee signes, wiste he what she mente
- 23Line 905'In warm wex hath emprented the cliket
- 24Line 928The turtle vois is herd, my dowve sweete
- 25Line 932The gardyn is enclosed al aboute
- 26Line 937Swiche olde lewed wordes used he
- 27Line 944'This Januarie, as blimd as is a stoon.'
- 28Line 957Beth to me trewe, and I wol telle yow why
- 29Line 989I am a gentil womman and no wenche
- 30Line 997And with hir finger signes made she
- 31Line 1027Th'experience so preveth every day the tresons whiche that wommen doon to man
- 32Line 1045Lo, where he sit, the lechour, in the tree
- 33Line 1064So that ye men shul been as lewed as gees
- 34Line 1064What rekketh me of youre auctoritees
- 35Line 1093I am a womman, nedes moot I speke
- 36Line 1138Ladies I prey yow that ye be nat wrooth I kan nat glose, I am a rude man
- 371141Gan pullen up the smok, and in he throng
- 38Line 1198He that misconceyveth, he misdemeth
- 39Line 1209Lo, whiche sleightes and subtilitees in wommen been. For ay as bisy as bees
- 40Line 1216A labbing shrewe is she
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- Flashcards on Merchant's Tale Quotes, created by Lotte Davis on 22/05/2017.
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