Themes: Wife of Bath and The Rivals
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- Themes
- Money
- My paltry wealth - that burden on the wings of love
- Lydia 'likes [Absolute] better as a half-pay Ensign
- the fortune is saddled with a wife
- It is my good as wel as thyn, pardee
- Thou shalt nat bothe ... be maister of my body and of my good
- Some seyde wommen loven best richesse
- Power
- I shal have the power duringe al my lyf upon his propre body
- Oon of us two must bowen
- Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee
- Deception
- in the floor I lay as I were deed
- no man swere and leyen, as a womman kan
- I wrote a letter to myself
- 'I should not be paid so well, if my hero knew that Delia was near fifty, and her own mistress
- Women
- We love no man that taketh kepe or charge
- we wommen konne no thyng hele
- Women are not used to weigh, and separate the motives of their affections
- Thought does not become a young woman
- Woman want 'wayte thing we may nat lightly have
- Honour
- 'Genterye is nat annexed to possessioun'
- Gentillesse cometh fro God allone
- And he ne wol doon hem but dishonour
- This honour seems to me a marvellous false friend
- Your son ... insulted me in a manner which my honour could not brook.
- What the devil signifies right when your honour is concerned
- Love
- His herte bathed in a bath of blisse
- and she obeyed hym in every thyng
- If I have lost your heart I resign the rest
- That was something like being in love
- I know see it is not in your nature to be content or confident in love
- likenest a wommenes love to helle... also to wilde fyre
- I loved hym beste
- Money
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