For sith I yaf to yow my maydenhede,
And am youre trewe wyf, it is no drede,
God shilde swich a lordes wyf to take
Another man to housbonde or to make!
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk’s Tale. Griselda is certainly no Wife of Bath, who had five husbands and had no issue moving on to another spouse when one passed away. But Griselda, after Walter dumps her and kicks her out of his palace, believes that she should not marry again as she remaines the Marquis’s true wife since she gave him her virginity.