Lafayette C Curtis wrote: | ||
It's all about showing the legs, man, the legs! You've got a very well-toned, well-muscled leg, so you'd want to show it off for everyone to see, don't you? |
This is *so* true. I am personally more of a "strong back and well-muscled arm" girl, but the Wife of Bath definitely liked her man to have a nice leg, and a nice stocking to show it off. She liked it so much that when she is supposed to be in mourning at her fourth husband's funeral she is distracted by the clerk who later became her fifth husband:
To chirche was myn housbonde born a-morwe
With neighebores, that for hym maden sorwe;
And Jankyn, oure clerk, was oon of tho.
As help me God, whan that I saugh hym go
After the beere, me thoughte he hadde a paire
Of legges and of feet so clene and faire
That al myn herte I yaf unto his hoold.
~ Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue, ll. 593-99
So there you go. She thought he had "a pair of legs so neat and fair" that all her heart she gave into his keeping. ;)
Personally, I still prefer the winningas. :p