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What eyleth yow to grucche thus and grone?
Is it for ye wolde have my queynte alone?
Wy, taak it all! Lo, have it every deel!
Peter! I shrewe yow, but ye love it weel;
For if I wolde selle my
bele chose,
I koude walke as fresh as is a rose….
Chaucer, from “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue”
L 2 queynte: pudendum
L 5 selle: sell, barter; perhaps a pun on “seal”?
L 5
bele chose: pudendum
A Romance of Her Rose
After Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath”
Must men grouch and groan for a virgin wife?
One they would make their quaint red rose for life?
Try to recall, from Chaucer’s merry tale,
Those marriage words immortal that prevail,
When all there is of love has come and gone,
Said freely by the good Dame Alisoun,
A wife who in five marriages had done,
While not de facto intacto for each one,
Kept her loving thing so fresh and rosy,
It seemed resealed and sold as unbloomed posy.