The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale Contents
- Author(s)
- Part 1: l.1 - 76
- Part 2: l.77 - 134
- Part 3: l.135-162
- Part 4: l.163-192
- Part 5: l.193-234
- Part 6: l.235-307
- Part 7: l.308-378
- Part 8: l.379-452
- Part 9: l.453-502
- Part 10: l.503-542
- Part 11: l.543-584
- Part 12: l.585-626
- Part 13: l.627-665
- Part 14: l.666-710
- Part 15: l.711-771
- Part 16: 772 - 828
- Part 17: l.829-856
- Part 18: l.857-898
- Part 19: l.899-951
- Part 20: l.952-1004
- Part 21: l.1005-1072
- Part 22: l.1073-1105
- Part 23: l.1106-1176
- Part 24: l.1177-1218
- Part 25: l.1219-1264
Part 13: l.627-665
627: What sholde I seye? but, at the monthes ende,
628: This joly clerk, jankyn, that was so hende,
629: Hath wedded me with greet solempnytee;
630: And to hym yaf I al the lond and fee
631: That evere was me yeven therbifoore.
632: But afterward repented me ful soore;
633: He nolde suffre nothyng of my list.
634: By god! he smoot me ones on the lyst,
635: For that I rente out of his book a leef,
636: That of the strook myn ere wax al deef.
637: Stibourn I was as is a leonesse,
638: And of my tonge verray jangleresse,
639: And walke I wolde, as I had doon biforn,
640: From hous to hous, although he had it sworn;
641: For which he often tymes wolde preche,
642: And me of olde romayn geestes teche;
643: How he symplicius gallus lefte his wyf,
644: And hire forsook for terme of al his lyf,
645: Noght but for open-heveded he hir say
646: Lookynge out at his dore upon a day.
647: Another romayn tolde he me by name,
648: That, for his wyf was at a someres game
649: Withouten his wityng, he forsook hire eke.
650: And thanne wolde he upon his bible seke
651: That ilke proverbe of ecclesiaste
652: Where he comandeth, and forbedeth faste,
653: Man shal nat suffre his wyf go roule aboute.
654: Thanne wolde he seye right thus, withouten doute:
655:-whoso that buyldeth his hous al of salwes,
656: And priketh his blynde hors over the falwes,
657: And suffreth his wyf to go seken halwes,
658: Is worthy to been hanged on the galwes! --
659: But al for noght, I sette noght an hawe
660: Of his proverbes n' of his olde sawe,
661: Ne I wolde nat of hym corrected be.
662: I hate hym that my vices telleth me,
663: And so doo mo, God woot, of us than I.
664: This made hym with me wood al outrely;
665: I nolde noght forbere hym in no cas.
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