Merchant's Tale Quotes
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Age gap norms of the time
“She was yong and he was old.”
Women being an object for men in marriage
“A wyf is Goddes yifte verraily”
Marriage as moral purification
“For wedlock is so esy and so clene”
January justing his desires through religion
“A mann may do no synne with his wyf”
May cheating in the tree
“than strugle with a man upon a tree”
May being trapped
“In a garden… walled al aboute”
January controlling May
“kepte hire under his lok”
Placebo only agreeing with January
“I holde youre owene counseil is the beste”
Damyan being May’s true love
“That loveth Damyan so beningnely”
January wanting to mould May to fit his expectations
“Warm wex with hands plye”
January explaining his own virility
“Though I be hoor, I fare as dooth a tree”
May’s Passivity
"Stille as stoon...as blind as a stoon"