Tho shewed hym Cecile al open and pleyn
That alle ydoles nys but a thyng in veyn,
For they been dombe, and therto they been deve,
And charged hym his ydoles for to leve.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Second Nun’s Tale. the devout Christian Cecilia shows Tiburtius that all pagan idols are but meaningless things, and she tells him to leave them and his pagan beliefs.