He was a good felawe, and by my trouthe, / For aught I woot, he was a somnour.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the narrator's seemingly innocuous but deeply ironic description of the Summoner as a 'good felawe' is 'weird' given his actual character.
c. 1387-1400
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"A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives."
Shocking"For though the grettest clerkes han it sworen, That ther is no felicitee in mariage, Ne no felicitee but in his lyf, That lyveth out of swich servage."
Controversial"Ther is no difference, by my fey, Bitwixe a wys man and a fool, but this: The fool is glad, and the wys man is sorweful."
Controversial"Wommen are so variable, and so unstable, That ther is no trust in hem, by my fey."
Controversial"This somnour bar to hym a stif burdoun; / Was nevere trompe of half so greet a soun."
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