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Quote for… her deafness

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She was somdel deef

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Quote for… her clothes

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Hir hosen were of fyn scarlet reed

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Quote for… her worthiness

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She was a worthy womman al hir live

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Quote for… number of husbands

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Housbondes at chirche door she hadde five

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Quote for… her teeth

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Gat-tothed was she

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Quote for… her view of marriage

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wo that is in marriage

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Quote for… King Solomon

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The wise king Salomon, I trowe he hadde wives mo than one

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Quote for… her next husband

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Welcome the sixte when that ere he shal

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Quote for… her marital duty

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In wyfhood I wol use myn instrument for myn enterte is but for to pleye

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Quote for… a summary of her 3 husbands

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the thre men were goode, riche and olde

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Quote for… her view of maistrie

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Be maister of my body and my good

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Quote for… her fourth husband

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my fourthe husband was a revelour, he hadde a paramour

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Quote for… Jankin’s legs

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Me thoughest he hadde a paire of legs so clean and faire

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Quote for… her vagina

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I hadde the best quonaniam may be

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Quote for… how she was made deaf

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I rente out of his book a leefe that of the strook myn ere wax al deef

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Quote for… her with the power

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He yal me al the bridel in myn hand to han the governance of hous and land

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Quote for… her and Jankin at peace

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And after that day we hadden never debaat

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Quote for… the knights description

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a lusty bachelor

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Quote for… he knights rape

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By verray force he raft her of hire maidenhead

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Quote for… Queen Gwen’s sentence

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I grante thee lyf if thou kanst tellen me what thing it is that women moost desiren

21
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Quote for… the loathy lady’s promise

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Plight me thy trouthe heere in myn hand, the nexte thing I require thee thou shalt do it

22
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Quote for… the knights answer

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Wommen desiren to have soverienitee

23
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Quote for… the loathy lady’s request

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thou me take unto thy wife

24
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Quote for… the loathy lady’s transformation

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that she so faire was, and so yong therto

25
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Quote for… Knight’s view of his punishment

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‘how he waileth’

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Critic view on… Wife as a critique of society

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Dinshaw: She is happy to keep it in place, but she wants it to accommodate feminine desires

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Critic quote for… the black death

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Patterson: ‘Social boundaries were breaking down. The wife is then a product of this new order.’

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Critic quote for… Chaucer as a proto-feminist

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The Guardian says: Women take control of their own destinies

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Critic quote for… sex and power link

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Owen: ‘Much of the sex in the text has little to do with desire and a lot to do with power.’

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Critic quote for… the Wife’s clever use of power

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Knight: ‘The wife’s clever use of power means she is able to escape male dominance’

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Critic quote for… Wife as a sociopath

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Sands: ‘Sociopath unable to form meaningful relationships’

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Critic quote for… Wife reinforcing anti-feminist views

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Hansen: Wife is a creation of man therefore, ‘seen as reinforcing anti-feminist views rather than undermining them.’

33
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Quote for… God’s view of sex

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God bad us for to wexe and multiplie

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Quote for… Wife mistreatment of husbands

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They loved me so wel, that I ne tolde no deyntee of their love

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Quote for… Wife’s lecherous bird

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and singe, ywis as any nightingale

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Critic quote for… Wife’s discourse

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Woods: Her discourse is marked by frank and almost obstreperous animalism.

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Quote for… Wife getting soverignity

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got by maistrye al the soveraynetee

38
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Quote for… Wife’s job

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Of clooth-makyng she hadde swich an haunt

39
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Quote for… her love of Jankin

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My fifthe housbonde, God his soule blesse,

Which that I took for love and no richesse

40
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Quote for… Knight giving Wife power

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My lady and my love, and wyf so deere,

I put me in youre wise governance

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Quote for… status of three husbands

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hadde social degree

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Critic quote for… the basis of marriage

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Owen: Marriage was a social and business institution

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Critic quote for… representation of marriage

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Owen: It is often little more than a setting for the events of a story

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Critic quote for… wife’s embodied negative female characteristics

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Tucker: The Wife of Bath embodies a number of negative female characteristics…stupidity, arrogance and deceitfulness

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Critic quote for… Wife’s view of love and sex

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Williams: The Wife reduces human love and sex to business transactions

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Quote for… Wife’s affair in fields

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Jankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis and I myself, into the fields went

47
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Quote for… Wife’s affair when #4 away

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I hadde the betrre leyser for to pleye

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Quote for… Wife not really loving #4

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I wepte but smal, and that I undertake

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Critic quote for… The Knight’s change in the tale

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Wainwright: The story of the change which occurs in a selfish, proud, and morally blind knight who is taught to find beauty and worth in wisdom and purity

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