The poet starts the characterization with “there was” that is typical to fairy. The poet introduces the woman with the word wife that underlines her social class (she is well-off indeed she has lots of precious dresses) and she is a business woman. Indeed she is the best cloth maker of Ypres and Ghent, so the poet gives also information of the place in which she lives.

Besides from the 6^th line the reader understands that she is superb and she wants always to be the 1^st. In creating the character adopts her style of dressing to underlines that she is vain, superb and not at all modest; they were very precious so the reader understands that she is well-off.

In addition the poet gives information about her physical appearance and about her lovers (she had 5 husbands) and it is a different attitude of the wife, she is more similar to a prostitute. She is respected only because she has money and power.

Then there are information about her voyages and the narrator says that the wife is wrapped up. This is a parody because the woman had lots of lovers.