He was a good felawe, and by my trouthe, / For aught I woot, he was a somnour.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the narrator's seemingly innocuous but deeply ironic description of the Summoner as a 'good felawe' is 'weird' given his actual character.
c. 1387-1400
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