"In dremes," quod Valerian, "han we be
Unto this tyme, brother myn, ywis.
But now at erst in trouthe oure dwellyng is.

– Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales, The Second Nun’s Tale. Valerian tells his brother Tiburtius that the life they have lived up until this point has not been real, they have been "in dreams." But now for the first time they dwell in the truth of the new faith of Christianity.