WoB Sex Quotes

Question 1

Quote about what God bade us do

Answer 1

“God bad us for to wexe and multiplie”

Question 2

Quote about where God commanded virginity instead of advised

Answer 2

I pray yow, telleth me.

Or where comanded he virginitee?

Question 3

Where would virginity grow without sex

Answer 3

And certes, if ther were no seed ysowe,

Virginitee, thanne whereof sholde it growe!”?

Question 4

Virginity is what?

Answer 4

Virginitee is greet perfeccion

Question 5

The wife talks about the purposes of the sexual parts

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What men should give for their marriage debt

Answer 6

Now wherwith sholde he make his paiement,

If he ne used his sely instrument?

Question 7

How much she made her husbands ‘work’

Answer 7

How piteously a-night I made hem swinke!

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Til he had maad his raunson unto me;

Thanne wolde I suffre him do his nicetee

Question 9

What was the fifth husband like in bed?

Answer 9

But in oure bed he was so fressh and gay

Question 10

The wife says she is marked by Venus

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Quote about the wife being makers by both Venus and Mars

Answer 11

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

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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