Not only the deed of this sin is forbidden, but also the desire to do that sin. This cursed sin annoys grievously them that practice it.”
—Geoffery Chaucer, The Parson’s Tale, The Canterbury Tales.
He never should have frightened me from drink;
For after wine, of Venus must I think:
For just as surely as cold produces hail,
A liquorish mouth must have a lickerish tail.
In drunken women has no means of defence,
This know all lechers by experience.”
—Chaucer, The Wife of Bath’s Tale, The Canterbury Tales
By God, if women had written stories,
As clerks had within here oratories,
They would have written of men more wickedness
Than all the mark of Adam may redress.”
—Chaucer, The Wife of Bath’s Tale, The Canterbury Tales
Sources: “Last Tango in Paris” (1972); “9½ Weeks” (1986)