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Often appears with: public storytelling at the pilgrimage · mediation by host and clergy · marriage and betrothal · household governance · censorship and the press · burning misogynist books · assemblies, councils, and senates
Usually: narrative (1) · reconciliation (1) · detachment (1) · irony (1)
“He gave me all the bridle in mine hand To have the governance of house and land, And of his tongue, and of his hand also.” Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems · vivid
After the fights, they make an agreement: Jenkin gives her control over household governance and burns his book, and the Wife’s performance prompts the Friar, Summoner, and Host to argue over who should speak next.
*beseech And yet eftsoons* I hit him on the cheek, *immediately; again And saidde, “Thief, thus much am I awreak.* *avenged Now will I die, I may no longer speak.” But at the last, with muche care and woe We fell accorded* by ourselves two: *agreed He gave me all the bridle in mine hand To have the governance of house and land, And of his tongue, and of his hand also. I made him burn his…