Read the WBT carefully.
You can find an interlinear translation online here, at the Harvard Chaucer page. It begins at line 857.
Try to read the Middle English original, so you get used to it. It is not difficult.
In our text, the "Cambridge School Chaucer" edition (where "school" means "high school") the Tale begins at page 71.
The WBT can be divided into a number of parts. I give one such division below; others are possible.
Writing Assignment: Write 350 words or a little more about the role of the Arthurian elements and characters: King Arthur; Queen Guinevere; the Test; the Quest; the resolution.
Compare and / or contrast the elements as used by Chaucer here to the portrayal of King Arthur, Guinevere, Arthur's court, etc., in Cliges and / or Erec and Enide by Chretien de Troyes.
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One way to divide the WBT into different parts:
ll. 857 - 881: An introduction (fairies, monks):
ll. 882 - 912: The setting of the Quest.
ll. 913 ff. - the Quest.
ll. 925 - 982: The Wyf's outlines different versions of "What thyng it is that wommen most desyren."
.. 951 - 982: The story of Midas' wife.
ll. 983 - 1022: Encounter with "the olde wyf."
ll. 1023 - 1072: Guinevere's judgment and wedding.
ll. 1073 - 1103: The "olde wyf" and the "knyght" discuss why he does not want her as a wife.
ll. 1109 ff. The "olde wyf"'s moral lectures.
ll. 1109 - 1176: "Gentilesse," or Nobility.
ll. 1177 - 1206: "Poverte," or Poverty.
ll. 1207 - 1216: "Eld", or Old Age.
ll. 1217 - 1227: The "olde wyf" puts the choice to the "knyght."
ll. 1228 - 1238: The "knyght's" makes his choice.
ll. 1239 - 1258 (1st half of the line): The "Happy Ending."
ll. 1258 - 1264 (The End): The Wyf of Bath's (= the narrator's) Envoy and Curse.