Tis Pity And The Wife Of Bath Quotes

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love measure is extreme, the comfort pain; / the life unrest and the reward distain

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revenge shall sweeten what my griefs have tasted

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Dead? No.. Tis worse she is with child

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be dark bright sun

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to be refreshed half so much as he

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pretty toy called maidenhead

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let her take anybody, all is one

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an old man's tales to frighten unsteady use

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love me or kill me ... brother // sister

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fashioned my heart to love him

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must i not do what all men may else - love?

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more ease to stop the ocean from floats and ebbs

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be verray force he raft hit maidenhead

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i hitte him on the cheek

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my chamber of venus from a good felawe

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he wold han slain me as i lay upright

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i took for love and no richesse

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the devil in my blood

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less subject to the stars / that luckless reigned my nativity

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likenest it also to wilde fur

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she may not in chastity abide / that is assailed upon ech side

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here's my breast - strike home

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experience, though none auctoritee / were in this world... to speke of the wo that is marriage

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lost! i am lost! my fates have doomed m death

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my lust.. tis my fate

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my modest fame should free from stain and scandal

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great men may do their wills / we must obey / but heaven will judge them for't another day

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marriage why thats to damn her

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tickled i his herte

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i put me in you're wise goverence

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for gentilesse cometh from God allone

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women desiren to sovereintee

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forgive him Heaven and me my sins

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far better tis / to bless the sun then question why it shines

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strive yet to cry to Heaven

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happy monarch of her heart

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he yaf me al the bridal

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not every vessel be al of gold / somme been of tree

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my entente is not but for to pleye

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wol him noght

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made 'hem swinke

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goode wives in the bible

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better to be wedded than to burne

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purgatorie .... glorie

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wyf ... lyf

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to live virtuously and weive sin

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an sith man is more reasonable / than woman is, ye moste sufferable

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who dies a virgin lives a saint on earth

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having my word engaged - owing her heart

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i would not for my wealth my daughter's love should cause the spilling of one drop of blood

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a wretched woeful woman's tragedy

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heaven admits no jest

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thou hast moved a majesty above / with thy almost unranged blasphemy

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[aside] if this were any other company for her, i should think my absence an office of credit

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i have the power during al my lyf

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that man shall yelde to his wyf hirre dette?

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whore of whores

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like a fire brand that hath kindled others and burnt thy self

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by course of lawe sholde han lost his heed

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Which one shall I take? Both? One? Or neither

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My dimensions as compact, my mind as generous and my shape as true

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We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon

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Conceit may rob the treasury of life when life itself yields to the theft

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Speak what we feel not what we ought

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I was contracted to them both. All three now married in an instant