Epilogue to the Merchant's Tale

Canterbury Cathedral. View from the north west circa 1890-1900 (retouched from a black & white photograph).

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'Ey, mercy of God!' our Host exclaimed thereat,
'May God preserve me from a wife like that!
Just look what cunning tricks and subtleties
There are in woman! Busy little bees
They are, deceiving silly men like us!

They're always sliding and evading thus,
Dodging the truth; the Merchant's tale has shown it
And it's as true as steel - I have to own it.

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I have a wife myself, a poor one too,
But what a tongue! She is a babbling stew,
And she has other vices, plenty more.
Well, let it go! No sense to rib a sore.

But. d'you know what? In confidence, good sir,
I much regret that I am tied to her.
Were I to reckon her vices one by one,
I'd only be a fool when I had done;
And why? Because it would be sure to be
Reported back to her, by two or three
Among us here; by whom I needn't say;
In all such matters women find a way.

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And anyhow my brains would hardly run
To telling you, and so my story's done.'

- Penguin Classics
Geoffrey Chaucer
Edited by Nevill Coghill

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