For if I wolde selle my bele chose,
I koude walke as fressh as is a rose;
But I wol kepe it for youre owene tooth.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath’s Prologue. The Wife of Bath is very clued in about the commercial worth of her body to her husbands. But it was rather cruel to tease them about what her "bele chose" (beautiful thing) would be worth if she peddled it on the open market!