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.
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"He hadde a forhead reed as any glede, / With eyen narwe, and hoote as any goot."
"And thogh a widwe hadde but o sho, So plesaunt was hire song, she wolde have two."
"A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives."
"Of remedies of love she knew al chaunce, For she koude of that art the olde daunce."
"He was a Reve, a sly and a trechour, And by his maister knew he every flour."
English poet, civil servant, and the father of English literature; The Canterbury Tales (~1387-1400) is the founding text of English-language storytelling. Closely associated with Giovanni Boccaccio (his Italian predecessor; the Decameron preceded the Canterbury Tales by ~40 years). For an intellectual contrast, see John Wycliffe, English theologian and Lollard reform-movement leader — Wycliffe and Chaucer were near-contemporaries in the same English Christian world — Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Pardoner are the canonical literary defense of fleshly humanity against the Lollard moral austerity that would later become English Puritanism. Earthy storytelling vs proto-Protestant moralism.
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