Answer:
The quote that best captures how women were viewed when Chaucer was writing in the 14th century is:
4)That's very near the truth, it seems to me, / A man can win us
best with flattery. / To dance attendance on us, make a fuss, /
ensnares us all, the best and worst of us.
Explanation:
Geoffrey Chaucer, the poet of "The Canterbury Tales" included "The Wife of Bath's Tale" to describe that flattery was how women were viewed. Even today, women still enjoy flattery over truth. Many women have fallen to men who flatter them with empty words. But, I cannot blame them, Eve was also flattered to assume equality with God. That serpentine flattery for equality with God immediately pleased her most above patience and obedience to God's instructions. Simply put, women, and some men, have enjoyed flattery at all times.
