Lo, lyk a bisy bee, withouten gile,
Thee serveth ay thyn owene thral Cecile.
For thilke spouse that she took but now
Ful lyk a fiers leoun, she sendeth heere,
As meke as evere was any lomb, to yow!
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Second Nun’s Tale. Using a series of similes, Urban describes Cecilia as a busy bee in the service of the the Lord Jesus Christ, taming her fierce lion of a husband and sending him like a meek lamb to the Lord for conversion to Christianity.