For hooly chirche's right is to be fed, / Or elles wolde he have his breed of whete, / And of the flour of his owene seed, / And of his corn a very large meel.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, revealing the Monk's focus on personal gain and rich living, a 'weird' deviation from monastic vows.
c. 1387-1400
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"He was a Reve, and a sclendre colerik man. His berd was shave as ny as ever he kan."
Humorous"For of his speche, which that he herde of old, / He was a verray Epicurien."
Strange & Unusual"She would weep if she saw a mouse Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bled. She had some small hounds that she fed With roasted meat, or milk and fine white bread."
Humorous"Ther is no difference, by my fey, Bitwixe a wys man and a fool, but this: The fool is glad, and the wys man is sorweful."
Controversial"He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith that hunters ben nat hooly men."
Humorous