He wolde suffer for a quart of wyn / A good felawe to have his concubyn / A twelf-month, and excuse hym atte fulle.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Summoner's willingness to overlook sin for wine, revealing a 'weird' moral compromise.
c. 1387-1400
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"If gold rusts, what then can iron do?"
Shocking"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th'assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge."
Controversial"And al be that he was a worthy man, He loved gold in special."
Humorous"And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenssh of Parys was to hir unknowe."
Humorous"If gold ruste, what shal iren do?"
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