Key Quotes for The Wife of Bath

"I with my fest took him on the cheek"

"But of no nombre mencion made he!"

"The nexte thing that I requere theeThou shalt do."Wyf, The Tale

"He was, I trowe, a twenty winter ooldAnd I was fourty"

"I wol be fair and good"Wyf, The Tale

"It is an impossibleThat any clerk wol speke good of wives"

"The thre were goode men, and riche and olde"

"Was of his love daungerous to me"

"Forbede us thing, and that desiren we"

"Women desiren to have sovereintee" 

"I wol nat wirche as muchel as a gnat"

"Al sodenly thre leaves have I plight out of his book"

"Experience, though noon auctoritee" 

"God bad us for to wexe and multiply"

"Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shall!"

"This is to seyn, myself have been the whippe"

"I nil envye no virginitee" 

"I wol use myn instrumentAs frely as my Makere hath it sent"

"A likerous mouth moste han a likerous tayl"

"Thou seyst, som folk desiren us for richesse,Somme for oure shape, and somme for oure fairness"

"I have the power duringe al my lyfUpon his propre body, and nought he"

"My fifthe housbonde, God his soule blesse, Which that I took for love and no richesse"

"Telle forthe youre tale, spareth for no man"

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