Ye han mo slakkere dettours than am I!
For I wol paye yow wel and redily
Fro day to day, and if so be I faille,
I am youre wyf; score it upon my taille,
And I shal paye as soone as ever I may…
Ye shal my joly body have to wedde;
By God, I wol nat paye yow but abedde!
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Shipman’s Tale. The merchant chides his wife for not telling him that the hundred francs loan he had given to the monk had been repaid to her. Offering a sexual solution, she suggests that she be allowed to keep the money and she will repay him in bed! And she promises to pay him well and readily every day, not like his more slow-paying creditors.