Myn housbonde is to me the worste man
That evere was sith that the world bigan.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Shipman’s Tale. The merchant’s wife melodramatically and with a large pinch of hyperbole declares that her husband is the worst man that ever was since the world began. She is likely exaggerating but it is clear that she is suffering in an unhappy marriage.