WoB Love Quotes Flashcards

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When did the wife stop working for her husbands love?

A

They had me yeven hir lond and hir tresoor;
Me neded nat do lenger diligence
To winne hir love, or doon hem reverence. (…)
Why sholde I taken keep hem for to plese,
But it were for my profit and myn ese?

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Which husband did she love best?

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I trowe I loved him best, for that he
Was of his love daungerous to me
We wommen han, if that I shal nat lie,
In this manere a queynte fantasie

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Tale: what does the knight believe the woman will be to him?

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‘My love?’ Quod he, ‘nay, my dampnacioun!
Allas, that any of my nacioun
Sholde evere so foule disparaged be!’ (His family will be shamed)

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