WoB Sex Quotes Flashcards

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Quote about what God bade us do

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“God bad us for to wexe and multiplie”

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Quote about where God commanded virginity instead of advised

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I pray yow, telleth me.

Or where comanded he virginitee?

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Where would virginity grow without sex

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And certes, if ther were no seed ysowe,

Virginitee, thanne whereof sholde it growe!”?

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Virginity is what?

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Virginitee is greet perfeccion

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The wife talks about the purposes of the sexual parts

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And oure bothe thinges smale
Were eek to knowe a female from a male,
And for noon oother cause, say he no? (...)
They maked ben for bothe,
This is to seye, for office, and for ese
Of engendrure
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What men should give for their marriage debt

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Now wherwith sholde he make his paiement,

If he ne used his sely instrument?

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How much she made her husbands ‘work’

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How piteously a-night I made hem swinke!

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The wife is almost like a prostitute in this quote about giving herself to her husbands

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Til he had maad his raunson unto me;

Thanne wolde I suffre him do his nicetee

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What was the fifth husband like in bed?

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But in oure bed he was so fressh and gay

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The wife says she is marked by Venus

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I hadde the prente of seinte Venus seel.
As help me God! I was a lusty oon (…)
I hadde the beste quoniam mighte be

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Quote about the wife being makers by both Venus and Mars

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For certes, I am al Venerian
In feelinge, and myn herte is Marcien.
Venus me yaf my lust, my likerousnesse,
And Mars yaf me my sturdy hardinesse

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She accounts for her personality and behaviour for being born under the Taurus constellation

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Myn ascendent was Taur, and Mars therinne.
Allas, allas, that evere love was sinne!
I folwed at myn inclinacioun
By vertu of my constellacioun

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