The Merchant's Tale

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Across
  1. 2. Dislike or prejudice against women
  2. 6. The knight is over ____ years old
  3. 8. Biblical figure who deceived her blind husband
  4. 15. The author of the Canterbury Tales
  5. 17. The form of the digression at the start
  6. 19. months How long the Merchant has been married
  7. 22. Archbishop of Canterbury, killed on Xmas
  8. 24. Warns the knight about rushing into marriage
  9. 26. Mayor of London and Collector of the Wool
  10. 27. One's declining ages
  11. 28. A system where men hold the power
  12. 29. Who Chaucer married; John of Gaunt's mistress
  13. 31. Where Chaucer went into exile
Down
  1. 1. Roman goddess, equivalent to Greek Aphrodite
  2. 3. Season the tale is set in
  3. 4. Chivalrous and courteous behaviour
  4. 5. An outward sign of inward grace
  5. 7. Where the pilgrims set off from
  6. 8. 'Regreening'
  7. 9. What fur the Merchant's hat is made of
  8. 10. The husband of an adultress
  9. 11. Blind follower and friend of the knight
  10. 12. Greek philosopher
  11. 13. Denial of subjectivity
  12. 14. Biblical figure who deceived and slayed Holofernes
  13. 16. Medieval tradition of love between a knight and married noblewoman
  14. 18. Everyday language
  15. 20. The knight and main character
  16. 21. The narrator telling the tale
  17. 23. Clothing laws
  18. 25. The peasant the knight marries
  19. 30. Sarcasm, present throughout the tale