For out of doute this olde poure man
Was evere in suspect of hir mariage;
For evere he demed, sith that it bigan,
That whan the lord fulfild hadde his corage,
Hym wolde thynke it were a disparage
To his estaat so lowe for t’alighte,
And voyden hire as soone as ever he myghte.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk’s Tale. Janicula was suspicious from the get-go about nobleman Walter’s intentions and the survivability of his marriage to the old man’s daughter Griselda, a peasant girl. As soon as Walter had satisfied his desires, he would think it a degradation to his rank to stoop so low, and would get rid of her as soon as he could, Janicula believed.