@BackFromTheDud@mas.to @BrianJopek@mastodon.world A lot older than that. Chaucerian: I speke now nat of malice, but of ernest despeir, for the conclusioun that ye han drawe is of so wonderful a simplesse that it greveth me moore than I kan wel telle; and yet I am meved lasse to ire than to sorwe, so depe, forsothe, that I ne kan discerne whether youre wordes sprongen of haste, or of a maner of nycetee, or of a wit al to wel apayed with his firste and pooreste thoght.