He was a janglere and a goliardeys, / And that was moost of synne and harlotries.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Miller's boisterous and crude storytelling, which is 'weird' for its explicit content within a pilgrimage narrative.
c. 1387-1400
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"Experience, thogh noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynogh for me To speke of wo that is in mariage."
Controversial"He wolde suffer for a quart of wyn / A good felawe to have his concubyn / A twelf-month, and excuse hym atte fulle."
Strange & Unusual"A man may do no synne but if he wole."
Controversial"And certeinly, as I have herd it tolde, / Ther was no wight that he ne ferde as a folde."
Strange & Unusual"Of remedies of love she knew al chaunce, For she koude of that art the olde daunce."
Humorous