He wolde suffer for a quart of wyn / A good felawe to have his concubyn / A twelf-month, and excuse hym atte fulle.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Summoner's willingness to overlook sin for wine, revealing a 'weird' moral compromise.
c. 1387-1400
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"Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde / With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed."
Strange & Unusual"For if a man be trewe in his entent, He may nat faille of his felicitee."
Controversial"He knew the cause of every maladye, / Were it of hoot, or coold, or moyste, or drye, / And where engendred, and of what humour."
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"His legs were like sticks, and no calf muscle was visible on his legs."
Humorous