I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare.
Canterbury Tales
I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, a highly speculative and unfiltered comment on the Pardoner's sexuality or gender, very 'weird' for its time and context.
c. 1387-1400
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"His heed was balded that shoon as any glas, And eek his face, as he hadde been enoynt."
Humorous"And yet he was but of litel stature."
Strange & Unusual"The Miller's prominent feature was his nose with 'a wart on which there stood a tuft of hair Red as the bristles in an old sow's ear'."
Humorous"For if a man be trewe in his entent, He may nat faille of his felicitee."
Controversial"For he was Epicurus owene sone."
Strange & Unusual