Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to the Canterbury Tales.She had been respectable all her life,And five times married, that’s to say in church,Not counting other loves she’d had in youth, Of whom, just now, there is no need to speak.

The description says she was “respectable all her life,” but immediately mentions five marriages and other love affairs. That contrast makes the speaker seem to contradict himself, likely humorously; it does not prove that he is literally lying.

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