At dawn this merchant

- ‘No!’ said the monk. ‘By God and my
salvation!
- This much I’ll say. God help me,
- And if I don’t, God send as foul mischance,
Religion
I call him so, but by the saints of
started to embrace his wife
France I do so only for a better
afresh, and kissed her on the
chance Of seeing you – because I
face.
love you dearly, Above all other
The love between the
women, most sincerely. I swear
merchant and his wife.
it you on my profession, love!
A romance between the
merchant’s wife and Sir John

Romance
Courtly love
In serious thought about
I shall come home as
his needs and debts And
quickly as I may. therefore,
up into his counting house
dear wife, I beg of you to
he goes To reckon up, as
Characteristics of Middle be courteous and meek to
you may well suppose, all
English (THE SHIPMAN’S all in place of me. Look
the past year and how
Didactic TALE and THE KNIGHT’S Critical after all our property with
things stood with him,
TALE) care, see to the house;
what he had spent, how
here’s plenty and to spare.
the accounts would trim,
Govern it well.
and whether his business
It reflects the role of
had increased or not.
women at that time in the
(good money Mystery plays
Chivalry society.
management).
Miracle plays

But by the - There was once a Duke called Theseus,

Lord that died May God and St Ruler of Athens, Lord and Governor, And in
for us and Augustine be your his time so great a conqueror There was none
bled, guide! mightier beneath the sun.
- This Creon, till the land of Greece should
ring With how he had encountered him and
served The monster with the death he had
deserved.