The Merchants Tale- Key Quotes

Quotes to describe the Merchant.

• ‘forked berd’

• ‘flaunderish bever hat’

• ‘eschaunge sheeldes selle’

• ‘worthy man’

And of my … of the passing

A … Knight

A worthy knight

A … yeer … man was he

A sixty yeer wyflees man was he

For … is so … and so …

For wedlok is so esy and so clene

it is a …

it is a paradise

She shal nat … …, certain

She shal nat passe twenty yeer certain

than old … is the … veel

the old boef is the tendre veel

Right as … may warm … with … plye

Right as men may warm wex with handes plye

And blosmy … is neither … ne ….

And blosmy tree is neither drye ne deed

it is no … pley

it is no childes pley

But I … best where … me my …

But I woot best where wringeth me my sho

took a … polisshed … and sette in a … …-place

took a mirour polisshed bright and sette it in a commune market-place

For … is … alday, and may nat …

For love is blinde alday and may nat see

she were of … …

she were of smal degree

her … beauty

her fresshe beauty

For to receyve the … …. - what is the significance of this quote?

for to receyve the hooly sacrament

This quote is significant becuase the section of the actuak marriage is so small but the merchant has to give a nod to religion

tendre … hath wedded …. age

tendre youth has wedded stouping age

… heighte …

Squire Heighte Damyan

the … was bought … as still as ….

the bride was bought abedde as still as stoon

no man can do … with his … ne hurte … wirth his owne …

no man may do no sin with his wyf ne hurte himselevn with his owne knyf

That alle ye go see this …

That alle ye go see this Damyan

She obeyeth be hir … or …

she obeyeth be hir lief or looth

That he wol no … suffren bere the …

that he wol no wight suffren bere thhe key

Is woxen …

Is woxen blinde

He had … on hire …

He had honde on hire alway

in … … emprented the …

in warm wex emprented the clicket

and to yourseself … and al myn …

and rto yourseself honour and al myn heratige

i am a … womman no …

i am a gentil womman no wenche

Ye … quod ….

ye shal qod Proserpina

that he shal have ayen his … …

that he shal have ayen his eyen sight

I … it up

I yeve it up

Gallen pull up the … and in he …

Gallen pull up the smok and in he throng

He yaf a … and a … as dooth the … when the … shal…

He yaf a roring and a cry as dooth the moother when the child shal die

let al … out of …

let all passe out of minde

He that … he ….

he that misconceyveth he mesdemeth

which …. and subtilitees

which sleightes and subtilities

Me … soore I am … hire teyd

me reweth soore I am unto hire tyed