Wel koude he rede a lessoun or a storie, / But al above that he koude singe.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Pardoner. His ability to sing well, particularly the offertory, is highlighted as a tool for manipulation, making his 'talent' darkly 'weird'.
c. 1387-1400
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"As for to speke of innocence, I woot no man that may be exempt from it."
Controversial"For she was so charitable and so pitous She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde. Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde With rosted flessh, or milk an…"
Humorous"She koude muchel of wandrynge by the weye. / Gat-tothed was she, soothly for to seye."
Strange & Unusual"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"He was a janglere and a goliardeys, / And that was moost of synne and harlotries."
Strange & Unusual