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.