The Wife of Bath interrupts her own story after commenting about the knight's failure to determine what women really desire in life. She discusses what various women tell the besieged knight.
Some tell him that women desire wealth, beautiful clothes, or a satisfying sex life. Others tell him that women desire freedom to live as they please. Yet others desire to be known as infallible, dependable, and discreet. At this point, the Wife of Bath...
The Wife of Bath interrupts her own story after commenting about the knight's failure to determine what women really desire in life. She discusses what various women tell the besieged knight.
Some tell him that women desire wealth, beautiful clothes, or a satisfying sex life. Others tell him that women desire freedom to live as they please. Yet others desire to be known as infallible, dependable, and discreet. At this point, the Wife of Bath questions whether women have the ability to keep secrets. She digresses from her tale to talk about King Midas and how his own wife couldn't keep his embarrassing secret.
Accordingly, King Midas had the ears of an ass, and he was profoundly ashamed of them. He begged his wife to keep his secret, and she promised him that she would be discreet. However, it wasn't long before she whispered King Midas' secret to the waters off the edge of a marsh. The Wife of Bath interrupts her story about the knight to tell the tale of King Midas and his terrible secret.
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