The Marital Dilemma in the Wife of Bath's Tale

Margaret Schlauch

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Confronted with his fabulously ugly wife after an unwelcome marriage ceremony, Chaucer's hero in the Wife of Bath's Tale receives from her a bit of consolation as ineffective as it is irrefutable. True it is, she says, that I am foul and old, but consider that for this very reason you need never fear that I shall cuckold you: D 1215 “For filthe and eelde, also moot I thee Been gret wardeyns upon chastitee.“

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