In al the parisshe wif ne was ther noon / That to the offrynge bifore hire sholde goon.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Wife of Bath's pride and possessiveness. Her insistence on being first to offer at church is a 'weird' display of social dominance.
c. 1387-1400
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"For of his speche, which that he herde of old, / He was a verray Epicurien."
Strange & Unusual"A vernycle hadde he sowed upon his cappe. / His walet lay biforn hym in his lappe, / Bretful of pardoun, come from Rome al hoot."
Strange & Unusual"The world is but a game, and we are but players."
Controversial"And trewely she hadde a greet talent / To laughe and for to carpe in compaignye."
Strange & Unusual"Upon the cop right of his nose he hade A werte, and theron stood a tuft of heres rede, As bristles of a sowes eerys olde."
Humorous