The Wife of Bath’s Tale
What do women want most?
Once there was a young knight who had done a bad thing and he must die. But the queen and the ladies wanted the king to save his life. The queen asked some question that was what do women want most. The young knight must answer correctly for save his life. He had a year and a day to find out the answer. He asked many people and he got many answer such as jewelry, find clothes, money but those answers weren’t right.
A year had passed. The knight had to go back and take his answer to the queen. Just then he came to a great wood. There was a 24 beautiful ladies were dancing on the grass. He turned his horse towards them but they had all gone. Suddenly, have a old ugly woman sat there now. She told the right answer with knight and he had promised to do as she asked. Then they went along together to meet the queen and all the lords and ladies.
At the meeting-place. The queen was there and said can you tell us, what a woman want most of all. The knight answered the woman want to be the head of her house. The queen was pleased the answer and gave his life. Suddenly, the old woman who told right answer came forward and demanded the promise. That was taking her as his wife. The knight must marry her as he promised. Their marriage was done very quietly
That night, His wife asked him what she had done wrong. She will do better but he said that was her ugly face and her age she can’t change it. She said beauty was only on the outside but the Heart was young. The man who did the great thing was far better than the lord who did bad thing. And it was better if you have a wife who had ugly and old face but was very kind to you and mad you happy, right?
The knight’s heart was softened by all he had heard from her. And he drew her to him and kissed her. Then he found that he was kissing a very beautiful girl. They lived happily together all their lives