1. Marraige in Chaucers Canterbury Tales Fragment A
... in her imploring for Theaseus her Lords sympathy for Palamon and Arcite - the queen anon, for verray wommanhede, gan for to wepe...greet pitee was it, as it thoughte hem alle'-. The traditional power structure, of a worthyre' knight acceding to his beloveds wishes with the full recognition that her power only lies within his will as husband, is implied. S.H. Rigby in ... ...
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