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Through a sharp, often provocative prologue voice, she challenges male interpretations, cites biblical examples, and defends her own history of five marriages. The prologue builds toward a rationale for sexuality within marriage, including procreation and the moral meaning of marital “debt,” while contrasting it with the praise of virginity.","GEOFFREY CHAUCER’S THE WIFE OF BATH’S PROLOGUE AND TALE  \nPRESENT-DAY ENGLISH PROSE TRANSLATION BY TAYLOR M. CONLEY, HANNAH  \nGUNNELL, AND CAROLYN WOODRUFF  \nDecember 3, 2019  \nThe Wife of Bath’s Prologue  \nExperience, though no written authority was in this world, is right enough for me to speak of woe that is in marriage. Servents, from the time that I was twelve years of age, thanks be to God that is enteral on life, that I have had five husbands at the church door—If I so often had been wedded—and all were worthy men in their degree. I was told, certainly, it’s not long since Christ never went once on his way to the wedding in Canna of Galilee, that by the same example taught me that I should be wedded only once. Here also, a sharp word for the purpose beside a well, that Jesus, God and Man, spoke in reprieve of the Samaritan: “How have you had five husbands?”, said he,“And that man that now has you, is that your husband?”—thus said he, certainly. What he meant by that I cannot say, but I ask why the fifth man was not husband to the Samaritan? How many might she have in marriage? Yet I have never heard talk in my age of this number’s definition. Men may speculate and interpret, up and down, but well I know, explicitly, without lie, God asked for us to go forth and multiply. I can well understand that gentil text. Also well I know, he said that my husband should leave father and mother and take to me, but he made no mentions of numbers, bigamy, or marriage eight times. Why then do men speak ill ofit?  \nHere, the wise king Solomon, I am sure that he had more than one wife. As to God, it seems legitimate to me to be refreshed half so often as he. What a gift from God he had, all his wives! No man has such that is alive today. God knows, this noble king, who in my opinion, the first night had many a marry bout which each of them, so he [the king] was happy with his life. Blessed be to God that I have wedded five, of which I picked out the best, both of their testicles, and of their chest. Diverse schools make perfect clerks, and diverse practice makes in many different works makes the workman perfect, certainly. I have studied five husbands, and welcome the sixth whenever he shall come. For truth, I will not keep yourself chase in all; for when my husband is gone from the world, some Christan man will marry me again. For then, the apostles say I am free to wed, in God’s name wherever I like. He says to be wedded is not a sin,“ Better to be wedded than to burn.” What care is it to me, the folks say villainy of wicked Lamech and his bigamy? I know well that Abraham was a holy man, and Jacob as well if ever I know, and each of them had more than two wives, and so did many other holy men. Where can you say, in any age, that high God defended marriage by express word? I pray you, tell me. Or where he commanded virginity, I know as well as you, there is no doubt, the apostle when he speaks of maidenhead1 he said he has no precepts of it. Men may counsel a woman to become single, but counselling a woman is no commandment: God put it in out own judgment. For had God commanded maidenhead, then he damned the wedding in doing so. And if there were no seed sown, from what would virginity grow? Paul does not command, at the least, a thing of which his master gave no command. The prize is set up for virginity, let him catch it who can, who runs best.  \n1 Virginity.  \nBut this word is not understood as being about every person, but that God is pleased with his might. I know well the apostle was a virgin, but nonetheless he wrote and said he wishes that every person were like him, it is all no more than counselling to embrace virginity. And to have been a wife he gave me faith as a concession; so it is no disgrace to wed me if my spouse dies, without the objection of bigamy. Although it would be a good thing to touch no woman—he means is in bed or couch—for it is perilous to assemble both fire and flax, you know that this metaphor may resembl","cbCaiofK6i77Mlvv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiofK6i77Mlvv","pdf",220113,9,1,14,"English","en",105,"# The Wife of Bath’s Prologue\n## Marriage as experience and divine permission\n## Virginity, chastity, and scriptural debate\n## Procreation, “marital debt,” and purpose of marriage","[{\"question\":\"What is the Wife of Bath’s main claim in the prologue?\",\"answer\":\"She argues that lived experience justifies her view of marriage and that marriage can be compatible with divine intention, even when contrasted with virginity.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the Wife of Bath use religious examples in her argument?\",\"answer\":\"She invokes biblical figures and teachings to challenge claims that only one form of sexual life is commanded or approved, and she treats male criticism as interpretive rather than authoritative.\"},{\"question\":\"What purpose does the Wife of Bath say marriage-related sexuality serves?\",\"answer\":\"She links sexual union to function and procreation, framing marital obligations as part of how humans are meant to act without displease God.\"}]","Geoffrey Chaucer - 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