Geoffrey Chaucer — "He wolde suffer for a quart of wyn / A good felawe to have his concubyn / A twel…"
He wolde suffer for a quart of wyn / A good felawe to have his concubyn / A twelf-month, and excuse hym atte fulle.
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General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Summoner's willingness to overlook sin for wine, revealing a 'weird' moral compromise.
Date: c. 1387-1400
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