Upon that oother side, to speken of the horrible disordinat scantnesse of clothyng as been thise kutted sloppes, or haynselyns, that thurgh hire shortnesse ne covere nat the shameful membres of man to wikked entente. Allas! somme of hem shewen the boce of hir schap, and the horrible swollen membres, that semeth lik the maladie of hirnia, in the wrappynge of hir hoses; and eek the buttokes of hem faren as it were the hyndre part of a she ape in the fulle of the moone.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale, Pride.
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