Tao Te Ching

“But I can say for certain, it's no lie,
God made us all to wax and multiply.
Take King Solomon of long ago;
We hear he had a thousand wives or so.
And would to God it were allowed to me
Te be refreshed, aye, half so much as he!”

— Geoffrey Chaucer 1343 – 1400 CE via Nevill Coghill
“Father of English literature”
from Canterbury Tales