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General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Doctor of Physic's detailed but outdated medical knowledge based on humours, which is 'weird' from a modern perspective.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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"If gold ruste, what shal iren do?"
Strange & Unusual"A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives."
Shocking"For if a man be trewe in his entent, He may nat faille of his felicitee."
Controversial"His eyen twinkled in his heed aright As doon the sterres in the frosty nyght."
Humorous"For al my wit is wasted on this art."
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