Self & Society: British Lit @Hood College

"For half so boldely can ther no man/ Swere and lyen as a womman can./ I sey nat this by wyves that ben wyse,/ But if it be whan they hem misavyse./ A wys wyf, if that she can hir good,/ Shal beren him on hond the cow is wood,/ And take witnesse of hir owene mayde/ Of hir assent." (227-234)

"Eek wel I woot he seyde, myn housbonde/ Shoulde lete fader and moder, and take to me;/ But of no nombre mencioun made he,/ Of bigamye or of octogamye./ Why sholde men thanne speke of it vileinye?" -Wife of Bath's Prologue, lines 30-34