From Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, Table of Contents

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The Canterbury Tales:

The Wife of Bath's
Prologue and Tale
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001-862: The Wife of Bath's Prologue

863-1270: The Wife of Bath's Tale

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The Wife of Bath's Prologue

001-034: The WoB mentions her five marriages
035-082: The WoB's opinion about marriage and virginity
083-100: About St. Paul's virginity
101-120: About virginity in general
121-140: The purpose of the genitals
141-168: How a husband should pay his wife
169-193: The Pardoner's interruption
194-229: About the WoB's five husbands
230-240: About the art of lying
241-262: The WoB on how to lecture a husband
263-290: A shrewe's proverb
291-308: A wife is no horse and cannot be tested
309-329: Envy and the power of gold
330-342: Sexual favour and the power of gold
343-353: The WoB rejects austerity and frugality
354-362: The WoB compared to a cat
363-384: Bondage in the marriage band
385-400: About cheating
401-436: Envy, payment and ...
437-456: ... pleasure
457-474: The WoB claims the right to drink
475-486: About youth and aging
487-508: The WoB's fourth husband
509-530: The WoB's fifth husband and the market price of sex
531-548: The WoB's gossib
549-592: The WoB tells how she has enchanted a clerk
593-632: The funeral of the fourth husband
633-652: The clerk becomes the WoB's fifth husband
653-716: Old men should read and write, young men should play with their wives
717-793: The fifth husband reads about the vices of women and lectures the WoB
794-834: Irritation, anger, a fight, deafness and a happy end
835-862: The dialogue between the Summoner and the Friar

The Wife of Bath's Tale

863-887: Introduction
888-904: A rape, a penalty, the queen judge
905-918: The queen sends the criminal knight on a quest
919-957: The knight searches the land
958-988: Ovid's tale about Midas: a woman cannot keep a secret
989-1014: The knight's last chance
1015-1036: The knight gives his word
1037-1051: What women want most of all
1052-1078: The fulfilment of the knight's promise
1079-1109: A frugal wedding
1110-1130: Jesus on the origin of gentility
1131-1170: Dante on the origin of gentility
1171-1212: Reflections on poverty and gentility
1213-1241: The two choices of the knight
1242-1270: A happy end

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