I guess she could be called pretty, in a "common" kind of way. I agree with you in your second set of ideas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_of_bath
In the following passage from Chaucer's General Prologue, "In all the parish not a dame stirred, Towards the altar steps in front of her, And if indeed they did, so wrath was she As to be quite out of charity," I believe that the Wife of Bath can best be described as petty. Do you agree? I don't think that she is holy, rational, or generous--Do you?
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