And everich was worth to been an alderman, / For they hadde ynough of catel and of rente.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Guildsmen. The narrator's ironic observation that their wealth alone made them worthy of high office is a 'weird' critique of social climbing.
c. 1387-1400
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