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Biblical example of bigamy (Lines 53-57)

“What rekketh me, thogh folk seye vileynie / Of shrewed Lameth and his bigamie? / I woot wel Abraham was an hooly man, / And Jacob eek… ech of hem hadde wives mo than two” (Lines 53-57)

The danger of women, and the perils of seduction for all parties (Line 89)

“For peril is bothe fyr and tow t’assemble” (Line 89)

Biblical allusion (Corinthians)- a wife's power over her husband (Lines 157-159)

"Upon his flesh, whil that I am his wyf. / I have the power duringe al my lyf / Upon his propre body, and noght he.” (Lines 157-159)

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