![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Merchant through his tale of Janaurie, whom has remained unmarried, and survived sixty years without marrying - reducing and mocking the importance of wooing a lady, and marriage as a sacrament, the ' olde knight', only choosing to marry at the end of his life' - Through Janaurie's tale, Chaucer reinforces the Merchant's view of marriage as a snare. 'That I say sooth by Seint Thomas Inde' - being married according to the Merchant is the most painful torture any man has to endure. The Merchant criticises and presents Courtly love in a very sattiricle way, undermining, this wooing over of women, Knights enduring adventures to win over a wife, when within the prologue, the Merchant expresses how all marriage has brought is pain ' we wedded men live in sorwe and care. The Merchant’s Tale from The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene (1870) ( transcription project) The Merchant’s Tale from The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer (1914) ( transcription. A Romatic relationship, between two unmarried people in medieval times, these love relationships, were not physical, but based upon filirting, dancing and dhivalrous efforts from Knights and Noblemen to win over and woo young ladies. Versions of The Merchants Prologue and Tale include: The Marchantes Tale (1900) from The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. ![]()
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