The Wife of Bath’s Tale

Experience, though none authority 1742 Were in this world, is right enough for me To speak of woe that is in marriáge: For, lordings, since I twelve year was of age, (Thanked be God that is etern on live), 1743 Husbands at the church door have I had five⁠— 1744 For I so often have y-wedded be⁠— And all were worthy men in their degree. But me was told, not longë timë gone is, That sithen 1745 Christë went never but onës To wedding, in the Cane 1746 of Galilee, That by that ilk 1747 example taught he me, That I not wedded shouldë be but once. Lo, hearken eke a sharp word for the nonce, 1748