Her prologue on the ideal marriage is then followed by a tale in which a knight of King Arthur's court is sentenced to death unless he can discover what women most desire.
In the opening of this work we learn of the title figure's fine clothes, her elaborately ostentatious "coverchiefs", and her hat as broad as a buckler shield. She then describes a fight she picked with her misogynist husband Jankin in which she pretends to have been nearly killed, prompting him to repentantly offer to let her run the marriage. Her prologue on the ideal marriage is then followed by a tale in which a knight of King Arthur's court is sentenced to death unless he can discover what women most desire. FTP, what is this Canterbury Tale about an oft-married woman?
In the opening of this work we learn of the title figure's fine clothes, her elaborately ostentatious "coverchiefs", and her hat as broad as a buckler shield.
The Wife of Bath