Question

Choose the quote that best captures how women were viewed when

Chaucer was writing in the 14th century.
1)That we are gentle comes to us by grace/And by no means is
it bequeathed with place.
2)But gentleness, as you will recognize, / Is not annexed in
nature to possessions. / Men fail in living up to their
professions, / But fire never ceases to be fire.
3)Lastly you taxed me, sir, with being old. / Yet even if you never
had been told / By ancient books, you gentlemen engage, /
Yourselves in honor to respect old agee
4)That's very near the truth, it seems to me, / A man can win us
best with flattery. / To dance attendance on us, make a fuss, /
ensnares us all, the best and worst of us.

Answer 1

The quote that best captures how women were viewed when Chaucer was writing in the 14th century is:

4)That's very near the truth, it seems to me, / A man can win us

best with flattery. / To dance attendance on us, make a fuss, /

ensnares us all, the best and worst of us.

Step-by-step explanation:

Geoffrey Chaucer, the poet of "The Canterbury Tales" included "The Wife of Bath's Tale" to describe that flattery was how women were viewed. Even today, women still enjoy flattery over truth. Many women have fallen to men who flatter them with empty words. But, I cannot blame them, Eve was also flattered to assume equality with God. That serpentine flattery for equality with God immediately pleased her most above patience and obedience to God's instructions. Simply put, women, and some men, have enjoyed flattery at all times.