What does marchant mean?
Marchant means Obsolete form of merchant..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Obsolete form of merchant..
His wife (having invented a present shift) laughed on her husband, saying: What marchant I pray you have you brought home hither, to fetch away my tub for five pence, for which I poore woman that sit all day alone in my house have beene proffered so often seaven: […]
By Jove, master marchant, by sea or by land Would get but smale argent if I did not stand His very good master, I may say to you, When he hazards in hope what hap will insue.
Now by the chaunge of a vizard one man might play the king and the carter, the old nurse and the yong damsell, the marchant and the souldier or any other part he listed very conveniently.
Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part, And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.
‘What thinke you of this English, tel me I pray you.’ ‘It is a language that wyl do you good in England but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing.’ ‘Is it not used then in other countreyes?’ ‘No sir, with whom wyl you that they speake?’ ‘With English marchants.’ ‘English marchantes, when they are out of England, it liketh hem not, and they doo not speake it.
In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]
The Marchant that returnes from ſome far forrain lands, Eſcaping dreadfull rocks and dangerous ſhelfs and ſands, When as he ſees his ſhip her home-hauen enter ſafe, Will he repine at God, and as offended chafe For being brought to ſoone home to his natiue ſoile, Free from all perills ſad that threaten ſaylor’s ſpoile?
To whom they shewed, how those marchants were Arriv'd in place their bondslaves for to buy […].
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Marchant means Obsolete form of merchant..
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His wife (having invented a present shift) laughed on her husband, saying: What marchant I pray you have you brought home hither, to fetch away my tub for five pence, for which I poore woman that sit all day alone in my house have beene proffered so often seaven: […]
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