The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale Quotes

Women may go saufly up and doun. In every bussh or under every tree Ther is noon oother incubus but he, And he ne wol doon hem but dishonour. (884 – 887)

And happed that, allone as she was born, He saugh a mayde walkynge hym biforn Of whiche mayde anon, maugree hir heed, by verray force he rafte hir maydenhed. (891 – 894)

But now kan man se none elves mo, For now the grete charitee and prayers Of lymytours and othere hooly frers, That serchen every lond and every streem, As thikke as motes in the sonne-beem, Blessyn...

But for ye speken of swich gentillesse As is descended out of old richesse, That therfore sholden ye be gentil men, Swich arrogance nis nat worth an hen. (1115 – 1118)

But certeinly, er he came fully there, Vanysshed was this daunce, he nyste where. No creature saugh he that bar lyf, Save on the grene he saugh sittynge a wyf – A fouler wight ther may no man...

But certeinly, er he came fully there, Vanysshed was this daunce, he nyste where. No creature saugh he that bar lyf, Save on the grene he saugh sittynge a wyf – A fouler wight ther may no man...

Thenketh hou noble, as seith Valerius, Was thilke Tullius Hostillius, That out of poverte roos to heigh noblesse. Reedeth Senek, and redeth eek Boece, Ther shul ye seen epres that it no drede is, T...