Chaucer's Wife of Bath

A good Wif was ther of biside Bathe,

But she was somdeel deef, and that was scathe.

This week we'll finish studying in class Chaucer's General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and we say goodbye to the Middle English period with The Wife of Bath's Tale. What an amazing woman!!!

A thousand time arewe he gan hire kisse,

And she obeyed him in every thing

That mighte do him plesance or liking.

And thus they live unto hir lives ende

In parfit joye. And Jesu Crist us sende

Housbondes meeke, yonge, and fresshe abedde-

And grace t'overbide hem that we wedde.

And eek I praye Jesu shorte hir lives

That nought wol be governed by hir wives,

And olde and angry nigardes of dispence-

God sende hem soone a verray pestilence!