I trowe, certes, that oure goode man
Hath yow laboured sith the nyght bigan
That yow were nede to resten hastily.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Shipman’s Tale. The merchant invites his best friend the monk to stay for a few days. When young and handsome monk meets the wife in the garden in the morning he asks her why she is so pale, teasing her with a sexual joke. Has our good man labored you since the night began, he wonders?