He knew the cause of every maladye, / Were it of hoot, or coold, or moyste, or drye, / And where engendred, and of what humour.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Doctor of Physic's detailed but outdated medical knowledge based on humours, which is 'weird' from a modern perspective.
c. 1387-1400
Found in 1 providers: gemini
Cross Reference
1 source
"Out of the olde feldes, as men seyth, Cometh al this newe corn from yeer to yeer; And out of olde bokes, in good feyth, Cometh al this newe science that men lere."
Controversial"For love is blynd alday, and may nat see."
Controversial"This world is but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro."
Controversial"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour;"
Strange & Unusual"For he hadde yeve his lord, and that of grace, The pleyn felicitee of his richesse."
Humorous