Boccaccio:
(no analogue)
Petrarch:
In hanc virgunculam Valterius, sepe illac transiens, quandoque oculos non iuvenili lascivia sed senili gravitate defixerat,
Walter, passing often by that way, had sometimes cast his eyes upon this little maid, not with the lust of youth, but with the sober thoughts of an older man;
Chaucer:
Upon Grisilde, this povre creature,
Ful ofte sithe this markys caste his ye,
As he on huntyng rood paraventure.
And whan it fil that he myghte hire espye,
He noght with wantowne lookyng of folye
His eyen caste on hir, but in sad wyse,
Upon hir chiere he wolde hym ofte avyse,
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