 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1879 - 824 pages
...Here bigynneth the prologe of the tale of DeafM] the Wyf of Bathe . Experience / thogh noon Auetoritee Were in this world / is right ynogh for me To speke of wo / that is in mariage ffor lordynges / sith fat I twelf yeer was of age .4 Thonked he god / that is eterne on lyue . Housbondes... | |
 | Robert E. Lewis - Foreign Language Study - 1953 - 132 pages
...this king experience Hou foies don the reverence To gold. (cl395) Chaucer CT.WB. DI: Experience thogh noon auctoritee Were in this world is right ynogh for me To speke of wo that is in mariage. (al398) *Trev. Barth. l8b/a: He [the devil] is scharp in witte of kynde and by experiens of tyme. (al420)... | |
 | Bernard Felix Hupp? - Literary Criticism - 1964 - 260 pages
...day oghte suffise." (X, 926) Significantly, the Wife begins her counterargument with the same appeal: Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynogh for me To speke of wo that is in manage. (1-3) The woe of which she has experience is that which comes from the husband's rebelling... | |
 | Peter Robinson - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 312 pages
...stress on the personal pronoun in her second line is the first sign of the Wife's dauntlessness : DI Experience though noon auctoritee Were in this world is right ynogh for me and from then on her self-assertion is not in doubt. Sometimes it is boldness naked and unashamed :... | |
 | Robert E. Lewis - Foreign Language Study - 1975 - 132 pages
...4.l477: Thilke love is wel at ese Which set is upon mariage. (cl395) Chaucer CT.WB. D.3: Experience. . is right ynogh for me To speke of wo that is in mariage. al450(cl4l2) Hoccl. RP l657: Hire mariage. . bei desyren for to be vnknyt. (c) cl325(cl300) Glo.Chron.A... | |
 | Piero Boitani - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 326 pages
...245 the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath. The last mentioned begins, significantly, with these words: Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynogh for me To spcke of wo that is in mariagc. 0". 1-3) In this way different fields are explored, such as alchemy,... | |
 | Piero Boitani - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 332 pages
...and fixed authority and the word that is born from the flow of experience. Thus the Prologue begins: Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynogh for me To speke of wo that is in manage. But perhaps the Tale offers the most striking single indication of the theme. For it is here... | |
 | Jörg O. Fichte - Fiction - 1987 - 170 pages
...her experience with her five husbands itself suffices for her to express a valid view on marriage: "Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world,...right ynogh for me To speke of wo that is in mariage; (III(D) 1-3) Her autobiographical reports, but also her comments and the advice which she wants to... | |
 | William Anthony Davenport - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 246 pages
...imaginative reversal of the pattern of narrative with complaint. In Anelida and 56 Experience, thogh noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynogh for me To speke of wo that is in mariage. (CT, III, 1-3) And speaking of woe leads to a complaint which unites argument with lament; the Wife... | |
 | Michaela Paasche Grudin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...dooth myn herte boote 20 The Wife is inclusive regarding authority as well, first downplaying it— "Experience, though noon auctoritee / Were in this...is right ynogh for me / To speke of wo that is in manage" (III [D] 1-3)—and then turning to it (III [D] 180-83 and 323-25). 21 The Wife's appreciation... | |
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Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynogh for me To speke of wo that is in mariage... 
