Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Tale
- ISBN-10
- 1349089133
- ISBN-13
- 9781349089130
- Series
- Chaucer
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987-11-11
- Publisher
- Macmillan International Higher Education
- Author
- Nicholas Marsh
Description
The first seven lines make a good example of what I might call a 'wave' digression: And so bifel that ones in a Lente — So often tymes I to my gossyb wente, For evere yet I loved to be gay, And for to walke in March, Averill, and May, ...
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