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Merchants
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- 1'Wepying and wayling care and oother sorwe, and so doon other mo that wedded been I trowe that it be so.'Weeping and wailing grief and other sorrow and so do many others who are wedded I believe it so.
- 2'I have a wyf the worste that may be, for thogh the feend to hire ycoupled were she wole hym overmacche I dar well swere'I have a wife the worse that may be for thought the fiend were married to her she would overmatch him I dare well swear.
- 3'Were I unbounden I wolde nevere eft comen in the snare'Were I released from marriage so may I prosper I would never come in the snare.'
- 4'Thou men wold him ryve tellen so muchel sorwe unto the herte ne koude in no manere tellen so muchel sorwe as I now heere of my wyves cursednesse'One might stab unto the heart in no way tell so much sorrow as I now here could tell of my wifes cursedness.
- 5Merchant wears a '‘Flaundrissh bever hat’Hat from flanders suggested he's either traded there or visited the continent.
- 6'Noon other lyfe is worth a bene for wedlock is so easy and so clene'Simplistic syntax, rhyme of bean and clean melodic.
- 7Theofrastus demonstrates why one should not marry 'ne take no wyf for housbondrye' because a 'true servant dooth more diligence' (take no wyf for handing household because a true servant does more diligence.) January says, 'Deffie Theofraste and herke me' ..
- 8Merchant describes Eeve as 'his paradys terrestre' 'By good conseil of his mooder Rebekke.'Biblical references to heaven suggests the supposed ebullience of marriage this is undercut by the unscrupulous nature of these women
- 9'She keepesth his good and wasteeth never a deel'.
- 10'O blissful ordre of wedlock precious.'.
- 11''Old fish and young flesh wold I have faynOld fish and young flesh would I glad have.
- 12'Better a pyk than a pykreel'.
- 13'Yields her dette when it is duePays her marital debt.
- 14'It is but bean straw and great forage'it is but bene straw and coarse fodder- food given to cows)
- 15‘Right as men may warm wex with handes plye’Just as one can hold warm wax with their hands. Full of wisdom and high prudence, placebo flattering Januarie
- 16'But that ye been so ful of sapience (...) for your high prudence'Placebo flattering Januarie, (Richard I surrounded himself with favourites)
- 17'There nays no man in Ytallie that koude bet han sayd'Theree is no man in the whole of italy that could have spoken better
- 18'Your hert hangeth a joly pin'You heart will be merry and at rest.
- 19'Senek wordes wyse seith a man oghte hynm right wel avys to whom he yveth his lond or his catel.'Using word of seneca, Justinus using authority to exhibit how Januarie should be cautious of whom he marries.
- 20'a waster of thy good, or riche or poor, or else Mannish wood'unhinged nature of women, means man crazy.
- 21'Straw for Senek and thy proverbsIgnore senek and proverbs.
- 22'Took a mirrour polisshed bright and sette it in a commune market place'Reflects Merchants profession, motif of imagery relating to business, relates back to Deschamps 'mirror de marriage' includes list of ploys of women.'
- 23'For love is blind alday'.
- 24'hir fresshe beautee and hir age tendre, hire armes longe and sklendre.'All the adjectives constitute to her physical elements shows his mania with her juvenility.
- 25'Her wise gouverance,hir womanly berynge and hire sadnesse'Her wise self control her womanly bearing and her seriousness, mention of her internal character after the plethora of adjectives describing her alluring physical appearance shows his true disregard of any of these personality traits.
- 26'She were of small degree'She was from a low income background reference to class.
- 27'Suffiseth hym her yowthe and hir beautee'her beauty is enough for him.
- 28'One thing priketh in my conscience' 'Ther may no man han parfite blisses in erthe and eek in hevene.'Theological concern, that a man cannot have happiness in this world and in the after life.
- 29'She may be your purgatorie , she may be goddes meene and goddes whippe'She may be your purgatory gods instrument and gods whip, she will punish you in this life.
- 30'Thanne shal youre soul up to hevene skippe'Then your soul should skip to heaven.
- 31‘that ther nys no so greet felicitee in marriage ne nevere mo shall be’No happiness in marriage and there never will be.
- 32'I have wept many a teere ful pyrvely syn I have had a wyf' 'Rich array'Justinus draws on his own personal experience.
And he gave her rich garments - 33'As hastily as evere that she shal be wedded unto this Januarie'Fast nature of the wedding.
- 34'Every scrit and bond by which she was feffed on his lond'Every legal document and bond by which she was endowed onto his land.
- 35'And bad hire be lyke sarra and Rebekke'Commanded her to be like sarah and rebeca
- 36'and made all sicker ynough with hoolynesse'And made all secure with holiness, religion used as a plastic seal, concealing the real motivation for this marriage.
- 37'Bacus the wyn hem shinketh al aboute.'Bacus pours wine all around.
- 38'And Venus laugheth upon every wight.'Venus laughs upon everyone.
- 39'Ymneous the god of weddying saw nevere his lyfe so myrie a wedded man.'Hymen god has never seen a man so merry.
- 40Whan tender youthe hath wedded stouping age'Which tender youth has married stooping age.
- 41'ther is swich mirth that it may not be writen.' 'Assayeth it yourself than may ye witen.'So much mirth that it cannot even be written.
- 42'Assayeth it yourself than may ye witen.'Try it yourself then you may now, direct address.
- 43'She was lyk the bright more of may.'She was like the bright morning of may.
- 44'harder than ever Paris side Eleyne.'H
- 45'Almost he swelte and swooned.Almost he fainted and swooned, feminine.
- 46'O perilous O perilous fyr.' that in bedstraw breadth.'Apostrophes add to dramatic tension. .
- 47'Still as STOON.'She was as still as stone, stone simple.
- 48'Lyke to the skyn of a houndfyssh.'-Like to the skin of a shark.
-Rough, lack of delicacy. - 49'Thus laboureth he tis the day gan daweLaboured till the day dawned.
- 50'The slake skin about his necke shaketh.'slack skin around his neck shakes.
- 51'Preyseth not his pleying was worth a beene.'.
- 52'no wol I speke of woful Damyan how shaltow to thy lady telle thy wo she wole alwey seye nay.'In another nod to the oral tradition the narrator is increasingly involved, now will I speak of woeful Damyan How will you tell her how you feel she'll always say no.
- 53'Brenneth that he dyeth for desyr.'Madly in love he borns for desire.
- 54'lettre wroot al his sorwe'in a letter he wrote all of his sorrows, pun on the courtly tradition of love where the knight should perform the brave deeds in order to astonish her.
- 55'and preyde hire strepen hire al naked.'Sexual , may if forced to have sex in an abrupt way.
- 56January hath wedded fresshe may in two of Tawr and Cancre glidedAstrological allusion, wedding occurred when mars was in conjunction with venus, mars god of war.
- 57his gentillesse it was for his genteel deeds.'Obvious irony is in the way that Januarie describes Damyan, as a figure of virtue and worthy of respect.
- 58'In the pryvee softly it caste'Crudity of the note, she throws it in the toilet
- 59'preyed hire stripes hire al naked. and she obeyeth be hire lief or looth.;explicit language shows his extreme desire, that she's obliged to obey.
- 60'how that he wroghte I dar nat to yow telle.'how he worked I dare not tell you, oral tradition intervention of the narrator.
- 61Gentil May fulfilled of pitee She graunteth him hire verray grace..
- 62'And rekke nat to been an homicide'..
- 63‘she taketh hym by the hand harde him twiste so secretly’.
- 64'he kembeth hym, he preyneth hym.\In attempt to better his appearance, verbs usually associated with women.
- 65'He made a garden al waled with stoon.'Barrier- stops people from entering people in London had their gardens walled with stones, people complained to their local Assise of Nuisance about neighbours with prying eyes.
- 66Priapus ne mythe nat suffiseOverwhelms Priapus the god of the phallus .
- 67'The small wicket he baar alley of silver a clyket'Rhyming of wicket and clyket relates the key and a whole.
- 68'Whan he wolde paye his wyf her dette'Thats where his wife would
- 69'O thou fortune unstable lyke to the scorpion so decyvable.'Scorpion, look harmless but strike with their tale.
- 70'Soul as the turtle that lost hath hire make.'Januaries consumed with jealousy deems her to live soul as the turtle dove.
- 71'and she knew eek the fyn of his entente.'And she knew the aim of his plan.
- 72'For as good is blynd decyved be as to be decyved when a man may see.'I
- 73'In warm wex hath emprented the clyket'The motif that was introduced much earlier in the poem of an impression or moulding is now literal.
- 74'Which you shul heeren if ye wole abyde.'Which you will hear if you will abide, narrativee tropes are used to entice the reader to continue reading.
- 75'treasons whiche that wommen doon to man ten hundredIn experience with most men in this take the essence of Plutos speech is another attack on women.
- 76'O Salomon wys and richest of richesseUses authorities to further support his views.
- 77'Hire halotrye.' 'Honurable knight.'The sight he takes in this domestic conflict
- 78'Now wol I grauten of my magestee unto this olde blynnde worthy knyht.'Admiration for him and severe pity.
- 79'Ladyes I prey yow that be not wrooth I kan nat glose I am a rude man.'Can not use circumlocutions rude man- shows the reality of the poem itself it's a fabliaux.
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