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He loved chivalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales · 1400

★ 4.9

And what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales · 1400

★ 2.3

I could hardly find a book on morals where, even before I had read it in its entirety, I did not find several chapters or certain sections attacking women, no matter who the author was... I finally decided that God formed a vile creature when He made woman, and I wondered how such a worthy artisan could have deigned to make such an abominable work which, from what they say, is the vessel as well as the refuge and abode of ever evil and vice.

Christine de Pizan

1405

★ 2.0

Love is a thing as any spirit free.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales · 1400

★ 1.5