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the wife of bath's domande a cui rispondere:1.what were her skills and abilities?2.what do they suggest about her social status?3.the physical description of the wife are positive or negative?why?4two numers are mentioned. what are they and what do they refer to?5.what colour is mentioned and associated with this character?what do we normally associate with this colour? seguendo questo testo:A worthy woman from beside Bath city
was with us, somewhat deaf, which was a pity.
In making cloth she showed so great a bent
she bettered those of Ypres and of Ghent.
In all the parish not a dame dared stir
towards the altar steps in front of her.
And if indeed they did, so wrath was she
as to be quite put out of charity.
Her kerchiefs were of finely woven ground,
I dared have sworn they weighed a good ten pound
the ones she wore on Sunday, on her head.
Her hose were of the finest scarlet red
and gartered tight; her shoes were soft and new.
Bold was her face, handsome and red in hue.
A worthy woman all her life, what's more
she's had five husbands, all at the church door,
apart from other company in youth;
no need just now to speak of that, forsooth.
And she had thrice been to Jerusalem,
seen many strange rivers and passed over them;
she's been to Rome and also to Boulogne,
St James of Compostella and Cologne,
and she was skilled in wandering by th way.
She had gap-teeth, set widely, truth to say.
Easily on an ambling horse she sat
well wimpled up, and on her head a hat
as broad as is a buckler or a shield;
she had a flowing mantle that concealed
large hips, her heels spurred sharply under that,
in company she liked to laugh and chat
and knew the remedies for love's mischances,
an art in which she knew the oldest dances.