The Tale of the Wife of Bath - Geoffrey Chaucer

In her tale, this challenge is issued to the knight: what is it that women most desire?
The knight must answer correctly or lose his head (could have been worse).  
What would you say?
 
I was probably about fifteen when our English Literature teacher presented us with  Middle English as required reading. The language was impenetrable. I couldn’t comprehend the text or why we had been given it. We had to take it in turns to read the Prologue out loud in class.  I disguised my cluelessness as best I could and did what any hormonally wild boy of that age would have done: waited for words like “queynte” and creased up.
 
Having otherwise zero recollection of Chaucer’s tale, I sat down to read it yesterday. I was surprised to find that I could make my way through and get just about all of it. What was alien to a youngster, with no overview of language or life experience of the kind that the Wife of Bath regales us with, confirmed to my heart’s content that amorous, free-spirited forces of nature like Alisoun have existed in every age, God bless’em all, and made the world go round.