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Wife Of Bath Inferences

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There are many inferences about the Wife of Bath throughout this story. With inferences such as the wife doesn't find women trustworthy can be showed with examples from the text. "yet out it must, no secret can we hide" (l.124). In this quote she is explaining a tale of a man trusting a women with a secret and then the women not being able to keep the secret and having to tell it to a body of water. In the end of this story you can tell that the wife makes inferences that men who don't get married are of no use. "And Jesus to us send, Meek husbands, and young ones, and fresh in bed, And good luck to outlive them that we wed. And I pray Jesus to cut short the lives Of those who'll not be governed by their wives; And old and querulous niggards

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