For wynnyng wolde I al his lust endure,
And make me a feyned appetit;
And yet in bacon hadde I nevere delit.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath’s Prologue. Saying that she never took delight in "bacon" (old men), the Wife of Bath admits she was nevertheless prepared to endure all the lust of her first three old husbands – for profit. Bacon here is used as a metaphor for old men and their sexual inadequacy.