... ten pound" (line 454 General Prologue) of coverchiefs, finely textured veils arranged over her head. Her clothing tells us she is no shy. But we're more interested in her famous love life than in her fashions. She's had five husbands "Housbondes at chirche dore I have had five" (line 6 The Wife of Bath's) later, in her Prologue to the tale she ... . Dame Alice feminism was perhaps not common, she means to attack the guilt-ridden and sex obsessed attitudes of her day by beating men at their own game. Although she quotes St. Paul on the sanctity of virginity, The Wife of Bath's is not asha...

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