"By Seinte Marie!" seyde this taverner,
"The child seith sooth, for he hath slayn this yeer,
Henne over a mile, withinne a greet village,
Bothe man and womman, child, and hyne, and page."
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Pardoner’s Tale. The tavern keeper says that Death has indiscriminately killed people of all ages and from all walks of life, men, women and children, laborer and servant boy.