The wife of bath is an unreliable narrator, she misuses scriptures and incorrectly tells commonly known stories. She attempts to build her creditability by quoting scriptures about marriage. A scripture she misinterprets is”To wed, on Godè's half, where it liketh me. w. God's consent / pleases me He says that to be wedded is no sin; Better is to be wedded than to brinne”. She say this in a way to excuse her multiple marriage despite her also quoting Jesus telling an Samarian woman, her fifth marriage was not real. Another case of her unreliability, her variation of the story of King Midas. “Said Midas haddè under his long hairs Growing upon his head two ass's ears;” Here she says that King Midas has two donkey’s ears under his hair, but the
