Geoffrey Chaucer — "For she was so charitable and so pitous She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous …"

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 and wastel-breed.
Geoffrey Chaucer — Geoffrey Chaucer Medieval · Canterbury Tales

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The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue (Prioress's selective compassion)

Date: c. 1387-1400

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