 | Robert Edwards, Vickie L. Ziegler - 1995 - 156 páginas
...myghte a man han any adversitee / That hath a wyf?" (1338-39).34 Like January's blithe assumption that "wedlok is so esy and so clene, / That in this world it is a paradys" (1264-65), it looks forward to the tale's fabliau action and comic conclusion. Further, the... | |
 | Agnès Blandeau - 2006 - 219 páginas
...for his pretty wife. He allegedly chose her in expectation of the bliss of married life: "For wedlock is so esy and so clene, / That in this world it is a paradys" (1264-65). Absolon is quite close to the elderly knight in The Merchant's Tale, since both... | |
 | Germaine Dempster - 1932 - 108 páginas
...dramatic irony of January's very first words : "Non other lyf," seyde he, "is worth a bene ; For wedlock is so esy and so clene, That in this world it is a paradys."88 86 On the influence of Melibeus on that part of the Mch. T. plot, see JSP Tatlock, Development... | |
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is worth a bene; For wedlok is so esy and so clene, That in this world it is a paradys. 
