Chapter 7: Late Middle Ages
Food for Thought
The knight thought hard and sighed deeply. At last he replied, “My lady, my love, my dear wife. I put myself under your wise control. You yourself choose whichever you think will be more agreeable and honorable for both of us. I don’t care which; whatever you like suits me.
“Then I am now your master,” she asked, “since I can decide and do as I wish?”
“Certainly wife,” he said, “I think that will be best.”
– Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath” (c. 1405)
