Eek every wight woot this as wel as I,
If gentillesse were planted natureelly
Unto a certeyn lynage doun the lyne,
Pryvee and apert thanne wolde they nevere fyne
To doon of gentillesse the faire office;
They myghte do no vileynye or vice.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath’s Tale. The hag says that if nobility were an inherited quality then those who who received through lineage would show it in private and public life, and be incapable of doing anything bad or dishonorable. This is a direct hit at the Knight and his crime of rape.