My lady and my love, and wyf so deere,
I put me in youre wise governance;
Cheseth youreself which may be moost plesance
And moost honour to yow and me also.
I do no fors the wheither of the two,
For as yow liketh, it suffiseth me.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath’s Tale. For the first time the Knight chooses the chivalrous approach with a woman and shows proper consideration for her. He allows his hag wife to choose whether she should remain old and faithful, or be young and fair and take his chance that she could be unfaithful. What pleases you is enough for me, he tells her, as he surrenders to the "wise governance" of a woman.