找canterberry tales里面The Wife of Bath's Tale的简介

The queen begs her husband for the favor of judging the rapist knight, and sentences him to die unless he can return in a year and a day to tell her "What thyng is it that wommen moost diseren". His search is futile until he sees a ring of women dancing in a circle in the forest. They vanish, and the old woman he sees in their place promises to solve his problem if he will grant her next wish. He agrees, and she tells him women want sovereignty in marriage. The answer pleases the queen, and the old woman asks the knight to marry her. He refuses because she is so ugly and old, and "thereto comen of so lough a kynde". She answers his charge that their estates are unequal with a lecture on "gentillesse" and offers him the choice of having her beautiful and faithless, or ugly and faithful. Unable to decide, he yields to her wisdom in the choice and she makes herself both beautiful and faithful for him.

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