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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"Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their men to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed."
Shocking"A voys he hadde as smal as hath a goot."
Strange & Unusual"For in this world, certein, no wight there is, That he ne hath som favour in his sight."
Controversial"And he hadde been somtyme in chyvachie / In Flaundres, in Artoys, and Pycardie, / And born hym wel, as of so litel space."
Strange & Unusual"His heed was balded that shoon as any glas, And eek his face, as he hadde been enoynt."
Humorous