The Shipman’s Tale reading written by Geoffrey Chaucer introduced the deceiving activities of a wife while her husband is away. Woman greed for money to pay her
dues results in her paying back with sexual favors; similar to the behavior of
the peasant girl in “The Name of the Rose”. Such degrading behavior from a woman with opportunities
but to have the finer things in life she lowers her standards as a wife. “That in his hous as famulier was he” line no.31 describes how she brought this man in her home
of matrimony to have intimacy. If this woman was busy as Griselda she would
have found no time to engage herself in such activities; selling her body like
a prostitute.
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