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And many another holy man also. Ignored her and had affairs with other women. A Summary and Analysis of Geoffrey Chaucers The Wife Trust right well, they were not made for nothing. Some Christian man shall wed me straightway. Of things of which they were never guilty in their lives. 1080 For prively he wedded hire on morwe, For he wedded her in private in the morning, 1081 And al day after hidde hym as an owle, And all day after hid himself like an owl, 1082 So wo was hym, his wyf looked so foule. Farewell! Nor follow his noble ancestry that is dead. As ever was wife, since the world was new. They would have written of men more wickedness, The children of Mercury (clerks) and of Venus (lovers). That in our fire he fell down backwards. If that should fail, then all is lost. It is nothing but waste to bury him expensively. Come near, my spouse, let me kiss thy cheek! And said, "Let the woman tell her tale. 1049 Er that youre court departe, do me right. What I have done, it is thyself to blame (you drove me to it). The Canterbury Tales The Wife of Bath is one of the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales who shares her prologue and tale with the others on their way to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. 737 Of Clitermystra, for hire lecherye, Of Clitermystra, for her lechery, 738 That falsly made hire housbonde for to dye, That falsely made her husband to die, 739 He redde it with ful good devocioun. 242 Sire olde lecchour, lat thy japes be! She has traveled all over the world on pilgrimages, so With such answer as God would provide him; And takes his leave, and goes forth on his way. A possession that no one will challenge. "Amended?" The Wife of Bath's 839 Thou lettest oure disport in this manere." That, thou sayest, will be without a mate. That Jankin the clerk, and my close friend dame Alys. "Now, madam," he said, "by God and by Saint John! That one for love, that other was for hate. Makes him know his God and also himself. 9 But me was toold, certeyn, nat longe agoon is, But to me it was told, certainly, it is not long ago, 10 That sith that Crist ne wente nevere but onis That since Christ went never but once 11 To weddyng, in the Cane of Galilee, To a wedding, in the Cana of Galilee, 12 That by the same ensample taughte he me That by that same example he taught me 13 That I ne sholde wedded be but ones. 703 And thus, God woot, Mercurie is desolat And thus, God knows, Mercury is powerless 704 In Pisces, wher Venus is exaltat, In Pisces (the Fish), where Venus is exalted, 705 And Venus falleth ther Mercurie is reysed. 750 Lyvia hir housbonde, on an even late, Livia her husband, on a late evening, 751 Empoysoned hath, for that she was his fo; Has poisoned, because she was his foe; 752 Lucia, likerous, loved hire housbonde so Lucia, lecherous, loved her husband so much 753 That, for he sholde alwey upon hire thynke, That, so that he should always think upon her, 754 She yaf hym swich a manere love-drynke She gave him such a sort of love-drink 755 That he was deed er it were by the morwe; That he was dead before it was morning; 756 And thus algates housbondes han sorwe.