He was as ful of love and paramour As is the hyve ful of hony sweete;—(Geoffrey Chaucer, Tales of Caunterbury, c. 1400, in Larry D. Benson, The Riverside Chaucer, 1987→lire en ligne)
Il était plein d’amour et de passion Tout comme la ruche est remplie de miel doux;
Noees flood come walwynge as the see To drenchen Alisoun, his hony deere.—(Geoffrey Chaucer, Tales of Caunterbury, c. 1400, in Larry D. Benson, The Riverside Chaucer, 1987→lire en ligne)
Le déluge de Noé déferle comme la mer Pour noyer Alisoun, sa chérie.