A voys he hadde as smal as hath a goot. No berd hadde he, ne nevere sholde have; As smothe it was as it were late shave. I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare.

A voys he hadde as smal as hath a goot.
No berd hadde he, ne nevere sholde have;
As smothe it was as it were late shave.
I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare.

– Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue. The Pardoner’s has a small voice, no beard, clean face and the Narrator Chaucer thinks he is effeminate. He believes he is either a eunuch (a man who has been castrated) or a homosexual.

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