Tmt

Question 1

The merchant as PREDATOR

Answer 1

‘T’espien’ and ‘Preyinge’

Question 2

“oold and hoor”

Question 3

“fruyt of his tresor”

Question 4

Purpose of marriage

Answer 4

“Thanne sholde he take a yong wyf and a feir on which he myghte engendren hym an heir and lede his lyf in joye and in solas…a lyf blisful and ordinaat”

Question 5

Ideals of women in marriage

Answer 5

“For who kan be so buxom as a wyf? Who is so trewe and eek so ententyf To kepe hym syk and hool as is his make?”

Question 6

using biblical sources to support viewpoint commentary by Chaucer on malleability of bible

Answer 6

Mentions ‘JUDITH…JACOB…SEINTE MARIE…SENEK…catoun’

Question 7

lusty lyf

Answer 7

the vertuous quiete”

Question 8

SENT FOR FRIENDS

Answer 8

‘And for his freendes on a day he sente To tellen hem th’ effect of his entente’

Question 9

Animal and sexual

Answer 9

Oold fissh and yong flessh…bet than old boef is the tendre veel’…‘a yong thyng may men gye right as men may warm wex with handes plye”

Question 10

For the sake of lawful procreation

Answer 10

‘leveful procreacioun’

Question 11

Debt

Answer 11

‘yelde hir dette whan that it is due’ = sex undermines sanctity

Question 12

DELUSION of youth

Answer 12

“I feele my lymes stark and suffisaunt… myn herte and alle my lymes been as greneas laurer”

Question 13

Sexualisation of may

Answer 13

“Hir fresshe beautee and hir age tendre Her middel smal hire armes longe and sklendre…this was his fantasye

Question 14

Jan asking friends not to argue

Answer 14

And alderfirst he bad hem alle a boone That noon of hem none argumentes make Agayn the purpos which that he hath take Which purpos was plesant to God

Question 15

Stoon

Answer 15

“the bride was broght abedde as stille as stoon.”

Question 16

SINFUL AND NAIVE

Answer 16

myn hevene in erthe heere… As alle wedded men doon with hire wyvys

Question 17

All that went through Januarie’s mind is

Answer 17

‘heigh fantasy and curious bisynesse’ about marriage

Question 18

Justinus

Answer 18

Paraunter she may be youre purgatorie!

Question 19

January does not as Justinus advises

Answer 19

‘use as skile is and reson The lustes of youre wyf attemprely

Question 20

Brisk impersonal marriage

Answer 20

‘And seyde his orisons as is usage’ = takes longer describing ‘the deys’ in ‘th paleys…ful of instrumentz and of vitaille The mooste deyntevous of al Ytaille.’

Question 21

REMINDER OF FABLIAUX

Answer 21

Whan tendre youthe hath wedded stoupyng age =

Question 22

Silence Mayus

Answer 22

that sit with so benyngne a chiere Hire to biholde it semed fayerye.

Question 23

sexual

Answer 23

This Januarie is ravysshed in a traunce At every tyme he looked on hir face;…in his herte he gan hire to manace That he that nyght in armes wolde hire streyne Harder than evere Parys dide Eleyne.

Question 24

Sex

Answer 24

“endure al my corage it is so sharp and keene”

Question 25

Sex

Answer 25

He lulleth hire; he kisseth hire ful ofte;

Question 26

Gross in sex

Answer 26

With thikke brustles of his berd unsofte Lyk to the skyn of houndfyssh sharp as brere

Question 27

Delusion

Answer 27

A man may do no synne with his wyf

Question 28

But God woot what that May thoughte in hir herte

Answer 28

Whan she hym saugh up sittynge in his sherte

Question 29

hints at previous adultery

Answer 29

She preyseth nat his pleyyng worth a bene. gives MAY HER FIRST bit of inner narrative voice

Question 30

Damyan pretending

Answer 30

woful Damyan That langwissheth for love

Question 31

Jaunarie sets up his own cuckholding through arrogance laziness and self-interest

Answer 31

go se this Damyan. Dooth hym disport (Cheer him up)

Question 32

TOILET SEQUENCE

Answer 32

But unto Januarie ycomen is she That on his beddes syde sit **ful softe**. He taketh hire and kisseth hire ful oft And leyde hym doun to slepe and that anon. **She feyned** hire as that she moste gon Ther as ye woot **that every wight moot neede**; And whan she of this bille hath taken heede She rente it al to cloutes atte laste And **in the pryvee softely** it caste.

Question 33

IRONY

Answer 33

NO BETTER THAN MEN

Question 34

PERVERSION OF COURTLY LOVE FOR SORDID LAISON = JSUT ABOUT SEX

Answer 34

This gentil May fulfilled of pitee Right of hire hand a lettre made she In which she graunteth hym hire verray grace.‘Where that she myghte unto his lust suffise’

Question 35

ACTION: sotilly this lettre doun she threste under his pilwe

Question 36

May’s power as a result of sexuality

Answer 36

Damyan ‘dooth al that his lady lust and lyketh’

Question 37

LIVING FULL DELICIOUSLY

Answer 37

as longeth to a knyght Shoop hym to lyve ful deliciously. His housynge his array as honestly To his degree was maked as a kynges. (as is suitable to a knight Arranged for himself to live full voluptuously. His lodging his clothing as suitably To his degree was made as is a king's = Sumptory laws about clothes based on status = Januarie AGAIN pushing the boundaries of what he is entitled to; excessive sensual pleasure

Question 38

He made a gardyn

Answer 38

walled al with stoon So fair a gardyn woot I nowher noon.

Question 39

he that wroot the Romance of the Rose Ne koude of it the beautee wel devyse; = mockery of real courlty love

Question 40

as an internal allegory - dark undertones

Answer 40

‘Pluto and his queene Proserpina’

Question 41

IN THE GARDEN

Answer 41

‘no wight but they two;’ a place to ‘paye his wyf hir dette… And thynges whiche that were nat doon abedde He in the gardyn parfourned hem and spedde’

Question 42

deprived him of both his eyes

Answer 42

Fortune has ‘biraft hym bothe his yen’

Question 43

AFTER losing his eyesight - like merchant; the narrative voice loaded with misogyny

Answer 43

He wepeth and he wayleth pitously

Question 44

Controllin

Answer 44

he had hond on hire alway /hadde an hand upon hire everemo.

Question 45

IRONIC tone

Answer 45

fresshe May That loveth Damyan so benyngnely

Question 46

May and key

Answer 46

“This fresshe May…In warm wex hath emprented the clyket…The cliket countrefeted pryvely.”

Question 47

“Walled garden”

Answer 47

…for “thinges that were nat doon abedde”

Question 48

Picking a wife

Answer 48

“many a fair shap and many a fair visage” which he imagines “night by night”...a “mirror polished bright” in the “commune market-place” to select a wide who suits his “heigh fantasye”

Question 49

DECEPTION OF WOMEN

Answer 49

May ‘bigan to wepe.’ at end = = continues in speech; I prey to God that nevere dawe the day That I ne sterve… If evere I do unto my kyn that shame That I be fals’ = dramatic irony!

Question 50

Sexual = subverts ocurtly love = and SHE IS IN CONTROL

Answer 50

hir fynger signes

Question 51

Jnaurie’s speech at end makes him appear vulnerable and attempts to create sympathy to make May’s deception seem worse’ though that I be oold and may nat see’ thou ‘art the creature that I best love’

Question 52

PLUTO

Answer 52

‘ravysshed out of [Ethna]’ his wife

Question 53

Pluto speaks of

Answer 53

‘The tresons whiche that wommen doon to man’

Question 54

Pluto expresses anti-feminist ideas in his CITATION of Solomon that

Answer 54

Amonges a thousand men yet foond I oon (virtuous person) But of wommen alle foond I noon.'

Question 55

PLUTO stiicking up for fellow man out of pretense of maolrity but ironic becaus ehe is a rapist

Answer 55

His owene man shal make hym cokewold