“Love is a thyng as any spirit free.
Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee,
And nat to been constreyned as a thral;
And so doon men, if I sooth seyen shal.”

—  Geoffrey Chaucer , book The Canterbury Tales

The Franklin's Tale, l. 767-770
The Canterbury Tales

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