Unnethe trowed they – but dorste han swore –
That to Janicle, of which I spak bifore,
She doghter were, for, as by conjecture,
Hem thoughte she was another creature.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk’s Tale. The people can hardly believe their eyes that the Marquis’s wife is Griselda, daughter of the poor man Janicula. Because of the transformational change she had undergone, they thought she was somebody else.