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Neal should have been worried about Inga being jailbait but at that point he was pretty focused on medieval literature, and kept on reciting passages from Chaucer and El Cid and talking about how Giotto was a better painter than Van Gogh, nokidding.
Just think how many words must have been coined by writers whose works are the only ones extant from early periods of the language: people who misuse citation dictionaries must think that Richard Rolle of Hampole, Holinshed, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and a handful of other geniuses sat down one day and invented the English language, making up the words as they went along.
Sweetheart was two words, known to Chaucer in Troylus (1374), as swete herte and in general can now logically be accurate in statements: Yes, I know sweetheart , when applied to a person with whom one is in love, be she girl friend or wife or a female who by her actions and looks sweetens the affection in a man's heart.
The farmyard cock is so called for its clucks, as illustrated by Chaucer in The Nun's Priest's Tale, in which Chanticleer cryde anon, cok, cok.
Asked the about the expression "Suffer fools gladly" (Corinthians 11:19), the first 10 people surveyed ventured a source with disarming speed: "Wordsworth," "Hamlet ," "Hamlet ," "Hamlet ," "Wordsworth," "Beowulf ," "Chaucer," "Macbeth ," "Herrick," and "Gerard Manly Hopkins."