He knew the cause of every maladye, / Were it of hoot, or coold, or moyste, or drye, / And where engendred, and of what humour.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Doctor of Physic's detailed but outdated medical knowledge based on humours, which is 'weird' from a modern perspective.
c. 1387-1400
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"He was a good felawe, and by my trouthe, / For aught I woot, he was a somnour."
Strange & Unusual"And he hadde been somtyme in chyvachie / In Flaundres, in Artoys, and Pycardie, / And born hym wel, as of so litel space."
Strange & Unusual"Therfore, for to speke of the horrible sweryng of the Sowdan, and of the horrible cursedness of his lyf, I holde it nat pertinent to my tale."
Controversial"'For shame,' she said, 'you timorous poltroon! Alas, what cowardice!'"
Humorous"For he was Epicurus owene sone."
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