Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde / With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Prioress's excessive care for her dogs amidst general poverty, highlighting a subtle social critique.
c. 1387-1400
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"She would weep if she saw a mouse Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bled. She had some small hounds that she fed With roasted meat, or milk and fine white bread."
Humorous"The Wife of Bath... had set widely 'gap-teeth'."
Humorous"And he hadde been somtyme in chyvachie / In Flaundres, in Artoys, and Pycardie, / And born hym wel, as of so litel space."
Strange & Unusual"For he hadde yeve his lord, and that of grace, The pleyn felicitee of his richesse."
Humorous"For love is blynd alday, and may nat see."
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