The reference is to the Wife of Bathes Prologue, which curiously enough, is again referred to by Chaucer in the Marchauntes Tale, C.
This reference shews that the present poem was written quite late in life, as the whole tone of it shews; and the same remark applies to the Marchauntes Tale also.
And therfore dur not the marchauntes passen there, but zif thei knowen wel the passages, or elle that thei han gode lodes men.
And the marchauntes passen be the kyngdom of Persie, and gon to a cytee that is clept Hermes: for Hermes the philosophre founded it.
For the marchauntes come not thidre so comounly, for to bye marchandises, as thei don in the lond of the gret Chane: for it is to fer to travaylle to.
And there duellen Cristene men, and many marchauntes and other folk of dyverse natyouns: be cause that the lond is so gode and so plentifous.
Be alle that contree growethe gode gyngevere: and therfore thidre gon the marchauntes for spicerye.
Note the name Placebo in the Marchauntes Tale; see E.
Maij, betwene king Edwarde first and king Philip of Fraunce, that marchauntes and alle maner men might passe to bothe roiaumes of Englond and Fraunce bethout empeshement, and heelde not long.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marchauntes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
