![]() ![]() He meets an ugly hag who promises to tell him the answer – but only if he agrees to grant her a favour in exchange. After he rapes a maiden, a young knight is sent away to undergo his penance, tasked with finding out what it is that women want. The Wife of Bath is more famous as a character in The Canterbury Tales than her tale, which is a brutal tale of rape set in Arthurian England. Yblessed be God that I have wedded fyve … ![]() No man hath swich that in this world alyve is. Which yifte of God hadde he for alle his wyvys! In an attempt to get his own back on the Miller, the Reeve tells this comic tale about a Miller who is duped by a couple of men. The Reeve doesn’t enjoy the Miller’s tale much, not least because the cuckolded husband was a carpenter, and the Reeve himself is a bit of a carpenter himself. Upon the whiche brook ther stant a melle Īnd this is verray sooth that I yow telle: Ther gooth a brook, and over that a brigge, At Trumpyngtoun, nat fer fro Cantebrigge, ![]()
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