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wob quotes - Coggle Diagram
wob quotes
1-30
"Experience, though noon auctoritee / Were in this world, is right ynogh for me" 1-2
the prologue starts with "experience" - sets the tone for the poem, wob thinks she is right and considers her life experience over "auctoritee"
"That sith that Crist ne wente nevere bus onis / To weddyng, in the Cne of Galilee, / That by the same ensample taught he me"
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"How manye myghte she have in marriage? / Yet herde I nevet tellen in myn age / Upon this nombre diffinicioun"
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"But wel i woot, expres, without lie, / God bad for us to wexe and multiplie;"
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30 - 66
"why sholde men thanne speke of it vileynie? / Lo, heere, the wise king, daun Salomon; / I trowe he hadde wives mo than oon. / As woldw God it were leveful unto me / To be refresshed half so ofte as he!"
sites solomon, religious authority and highlights the double standard in men and women in religion + "refresshed" has sexual connotations - sexual freedom of women - accusing/humorous tone
"For thanne, th'apostle seith that i am free/....He seith that to be wedded is no sinne;"
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"Th'apostel, whan he speketh of maidenhede,...Men may conseille a womman to been oon, / But conseilling is no comandement"
77-104
"He wolde that every wight were swich as he, / Al nis but conseil to virginitee"