I wol noon oold wyf han in no manere.
She shal nat passe twenty yeer, certayn.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Merchant’s Tale. January is a foolish old man, who insists that he will not take an old wife under any circumstances. Though he is sixty himself, he insists that he will marry no woman older than twenty. Now that doesn’t sound a smart decision, as he will find to his cost.