This quotation shows that she has no restraint in flaunting her sins to those who care to listen. She is one to use old men for money and stature and the young for sexual indulgence. This also captures her selfishness. Chaucer furthers this image in her tale when it states, "Of whiche I have picked out the beste, / Bothe of hir nether purs and of hir chreste ""(lines 45-46).
Her plan is to use men as she sees fit. As a result, she becomes well traveled and learned in the ways of the world. By being able to outlast her five husbands she has managed to come out with a businesses and a financial independence. We must also note that by being able to travel up the social class from a peasant to a sort of merchant she must also be not without intelligence.
The Prioress also known as the Nun represents a proper and feminine woman of the medieval period. She is elegant, careful, and above all worldly. She cares more about others and doing for others than for herself. Chaucer paint this picture of the Prioress in the " General Prologue" , when he states,.
She wolde weepe if that she saw a mous.
Caught in a trapppe, if it were deed of bleede.
Of small houndes hadde she that she fedde.
With roasted flesh, of milk and wastelbreed,.
Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte;.
And all was conscience and tender herte (lines 144-150).
She apparently cannot stand to see violence or suffering of any kind. As a close follower to the church, she in turn is a religious woman who is among the clergy. Along with fer vow of chasity, this makes her a moral individual in the eyes of society and a leading role model for other woman. She personifies the essence of grace that all women should posses or adapt to as well as gluttony and poise.
That no drope ne fille upon hir brrest. .
In curteisye was set ful muchel hir lest.
Hir over~lipp wiped she so clene.
That in Hir coppe ther was no ferthng seene (lines ).
You also gather a sense of perfection as well as grace, in fact, she has not one drop on herself.