Respuesta :
There is a statement that the Queen in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" states can be used and essentially answered by the Knight in the story so that he might save his life. The question is, "What do women desire the most?" The Queen gives the Knight a year and one day in order to come up with the correct answer.
Answer: “A woman wants… sovereignty/Over her husband as over her lover…”
Explanation: This is the quote that the knight says to the Queen in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales to save his life. The crone was the one who advised him to say this.