Shul men warisshe werre by vengeaunce.

– Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales, The Tale of Melibee. Chaucer the Pilgrim tells this tale in which Melibee’s wife has been beaten and his daughter greviously injured by three enemies. Melibee wants to avenge himself but his wife Prudeice convinces im to call a group of people together to give him counsel. Men shall cure war by vengeance, the Physicians advise Melibee in this quote.