He cast his eye upon Emelya,
And therwithal he bleynte and cride, "A!"
As though he stongen were unto the herte.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Knight’s Tale. The beautiful Emily, singing as heavenly as an angel and gathering white and red flowers to make a garland for her hair! Now who wouldn’t fall in love with that? And Palamon from his prison tower does, he turns pale and cries out as though he were stabbed in the heart.