WoB quotes

Question 1

I am expert

Answer 1

in al myn age

Question 2

I wol bistowe the flour of al myn age

Answer 2

In the actes and in fruit of mariage

Question 3

in bacon

Answer 3

hadde I nevere delit

Question 4

I was fourt…

Answer 4

But yet I hadde alwey a coultes tooth

Question 5

I am al Vererian / In feeling

Answer 5

and myn herte is Marcien

Question 6

God badde us for to

Answer 6

wexe and multiplie

Question 7

Abraham was an hooly man, / And Jacob

Answer 7

…And ech of them hadde wives mo than two

Question 8

I laughe whan I thinke

Answer 8

How pitously a-night I made hem swinke!

Question 9

Deciete, weping, spinning

Answer 9

God hath yive / To wommen kindley

Question 10

Stibourn I was

Answer 10

as I a leonesse

Question 11

The thre were goode men, and riche, and olde/

Answer 11

Unneathe mygthe they the statut holde

Question 12

They had yven

Answer 12

hir lond and hir tresoor

Question 13

My fifthe housbonde…

Answer 13

I took for love and no richesse

Question 14

to him yaf I

Answer 14

al the lond and fee

Question 15

He nolde suffre

Answer 15

nothing of my list

Question 16

he smoot me ones

Answer 16

on the list

Question 17

wo that is

Answer 17

mariage

Question 18

shal be bothe detour

Answer 18

and my thral

Question 19

thre of hem were goode

Answer 19

and two were badde

Question 20

The bacon

Answer 20

was nat fet for hem

Question 21

For as an hors

Answer 21

I koude bite and whine

Question 22

de hem no plesaunce…

Answer 22

Til he had maad his raunson unto me

Question 23

I was his

Answer 23

purgatorie

Question 24

Hir hosen weren of

Answer 24

fyn scarlet reed

Question 25

Of remedies of love she knew per chaunce

Answer 25

For she koulde of that art the olde daunce

Question 26

vessel al of gold

Answer 26

been of tree

Question 27

Virginitee is

Answer 27

perfeccioun

Question 28

Lat hem he breed of pured whete-seed

Answer 28

And lat us wives hoten barly-breed

Question 29

The bren, as I best kan,

Answer 29

no moste I selle

Question 30

I love him best, for that he

Answer 30

Was of his love daungerous unto me

Question 31

in oure bed

Answer 31

he was so fresh and gay

Question 32

In th'olde dayes of the King Arthour

Answer 32

this land fulfild of faierie

Question 33

By verray force

Answer 33

he rafte hire madienhead

Question 34

Wommen desiren to have sovereintee...

Answer 34

And for to been in maistrie him above

Question 35

ye speken of which gentillesse

Answer 35

As is descended out of oure olde richesse

Question 36

men may often fynde

Answer 36

A lords sone do shame and vileyne

Question 37

poverty is

Answer 37

a hateful good