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(Based on The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.) In the beginning of the Wife of Bath's Prologue, she expresses that marriage, based on all of her experience, is a misery and a woe. However, she goes on to give a lengthy defense of her many marriages, and says that she will "welcome the sixth, whenever he appears". She seems to enjoy marriage, as a sport. According to the Wife of Bath's point of view, a wife ought to be completely sovereign in marriage: having full control over her husband's body, mind, and everything he owns. She should be given anything she wants and allowed to do anything she pleases. The husband ought to be patient, meek, quiet, easily managed by his wife and eager to please her. He ought to "love her well", be faithful to