Books like The Merchant's Prologue and Tale

"Strugle?" quod he, "Ye, algate in it wente! God yeve yow bothe on shames deth to dyen! He swyved thee; I saugh it with myne yen."Modern translation:"Struggle?" said he, "Yea, indeed in it went!God give you both a shameful death to die!He screwed thee; I saw it with my eyes."And there you have it. "Screwed" is not crude American slang, but has been a part of the British lexicon since at least the medieval era :)Harvard University's Chaucer translation site :https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chauce....