Not by chance is the all-but-Quixotic romance of "Palamon and Arcite," taken by Chaucer from Boccaccio's "Teseide," related by the "Knight"; not by chance does the "Clerk," following Petrarch's Latin version of a story related by the same author, tell the even more improbable, but, in the plainness of its moral, infinitely more Fructuous tale of patient Griseldis.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward
Another branch of this umbrageous if not Fructuous tree of lunar superstition is the moon's influence on human fortune.
"Moon Lore"
Timothy Harley
And though that men bring of the plants, for to plant in other countries, they grow well and fair; but they bring forth no Fructuous thing, and the leaves of balm fall not.
"The-Travels-of-Sir-John-Mandeville"
Mandeville, John, Sir