The wife says she has had five husbands and that's all thanks to God (1-8). She is trying to make it seem like having five husbands is justifiable in her case and that her five husbands were all subservient to her. They may not have obeyed her at first, but eventually they all became submissive at some point in the relationship. She firmly believes that husbands should obey their wives, somewhat in a feminist view. She is true to this belief and to herself, because this vision does not change. Her loyalty is different from that of Beowulf, Gawain and Lanval in that loyalty is to the king, but instead she herself is similar to Gawain in that he was also loyal to