Wife Of Bath

             „Y She is an authority on marriage.
             „Y Since she has been married 5 times, her first one at age twelve, she has many views on the subject.
             „Y She feels that god has put us on this earth to multiply, and condemns virgins. If everyone were a virgin, how would we keep man alive?
             „Y She has a lot of sexual power. Very Controlling.
             „Y The pardoner interrupts and worries about his own marriage. She claims to have patience and listen to her tale as she uncovers the truth about marriage.
             „Y Of her 5 husbands, 3 have been good and 2 have been bad.
             „Y The first three were good because they were old and rich, she admits.
             „Y She would often try to blackmail her husbands.
             „Y She used her sexual power to gain money from them.
             „Y She loved her 5th husband a lot although he often tormented her and beat her.
             „Y This Husband, she actually married because she loved him.
             „Y He was 20 years younger than she was.
             „Y They once got in a fight, she struck her in the face and that is why she is deft in the left ear.
             „Y Starts with a knight raping a girl in a forest.
             „Y King said they were going to kill him
             „Y Queen and other ladies have a fit and he tells them to pick the punishment
             „Y Queens asks, what do women desire, gives him a year to decide on his answer
             „Y He has gotten a different answer at every house he has gone to
             „Y She creates herself when she describes what the women are saying.
             „Y Tells a different tale, about Midas. Woman can not keep secrets, told it to a stream.
             „Y Knight is upset - sees women dancing and singing, then they disappear. One old woman asks him what he is looking for.
             „Y Woman tells him she will say the answer if he promises to go and so whatever she asks him to do.
             „Y ¡§My liege and lady, in general¡ ¡§
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