Can anyone translate this Chaucer extract from Wife of Bath?
To wedding in the cane of Galilee that by the same example taught he, me that I should only be married once hearken with a Sharpe word (against) beside a well Jesus, God and Man spoke in reprieve of the Samaritan. The wife of Bath is about a woman who has had 5 different husbands… The tale tells of her experiences and how she and others see her (or how she believes others see her?) as a result. Here… It refers to religious reasons for only marrying once. Jesus (used here as the example before God and spoken to man.) is considered the Bridegroom and the saved are called His bride. There is a feast in Heaven and blah blah blah… This is the setting she uses here to kind of dialog her feelings both for (as in this case) and against in others in the book, being married numerous times. It is metaphorical… I don’t have the book in front of me right now and I’m too lazy to get it… I’ll go look it up later on and come back if I was wrong I have to really be in the mood to study Chauce
