She koude muchel of wandrynge by the weye. / Gat-tothed was she, soothly for to seye.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Wife of Bath's extensive travels and her 'gat-tothed' (gap-toothed) appearance, which was considered a sign of being lustful and bold, making it a 'weird' physical detail with symbolic weight.
c. 1387-1400
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"He wolde make a good confessorie, / If a man had a soule, and that he were / A good man, and coude wel here / Confessiouns, and have a good memorie."
Strange & Unusual"Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde / With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed."
Strange & Unusual"A man may do no synne but if he wole."
Controversial"And al be that he was a worthy man, He loved gold in special."
Humorous"The world is but a game, and we are but players."
Controversial