This knyght answerde, "Allas and weylawey!
I woot right wel that swich was my biheste.
For Goddes love, as chees a newe requeste!
Taak al my good and lat my body go."
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath’s Tale. The Knight is unhappy that the Loathly Lady is demanding he repay his debt to her by marrying her. He pleads with her to choose a new request, to take all his goods and let his body go. He clearly doesn’t fancy the idea of an ugly old hag having sovereignty over him and his body.