"Mooder," quod she, "and mayde bright, Marie,
Sooth is that thurgh wommanes eggement
Mankynde was lorn, and damned ay to dye,
For which thy child was on a croys yrent.
Thy blisful eyen sawe al his torment."
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Man of Law’s Tale. Constance prays to Mary, acknowledging that it was because of Eve that mankind suffered the Fall and original sin came to the world and Mary had to watch her son Christ suffer and die on a cross for our sins. Being a mother now herself, Constance emphathizes with the suffering of the Mother of God.