How would you compare and contrast the Wife of Bath with the old woman in Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale"?

The
old woman in the Wife of Bath's story is one of several examples of the 'loathly lady'in
medieval poetry. Readers of the tale would have been broadly familiar with her story: she is
ugly, and indeed 'a fouler wight ther may no man devyse' (1005). She is also of low birth and is
older than the ideal wife, making her far from the preferred marriage partner for the knight who
weds her. The loathly lady knows, however, that despite these considerations, the knight has
made a binding promise to her, which she repeats before the court. She achieves her ends through
shrewdness and strategy. 

This level of strategy and cunning is one of the
reasons many comparisons have been drawn between her and the Wife of Bath herselfshe is also
skilled in, as is made evident in the speech she delivers to her husband on issues such as the
advantages offered by old age and poverty, and the true source of gentility. Like the Wife of
Bath, she is a woman above marriageable age who...