This parissh clerk, this joly Absolon,
Hath in his herte swich a love-longynge
That of no wyf took he noon offrynge;
For curteisie, he seyde, he wolde noon.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Miller’s Tale. Absolon has the love bug bad for Alison. So much so that he spurns all other woman and decides he will have no other wife.