Also kynde erret in som beestes wondirliche j-schape, as it faret in a beest tat hatte lamia, tat hat an heed as a mayde & body as a grym fissche[;] whan tat best lamya may fynde ony man, first a flateret wit hym with a wommannes face and maket hym ligge by here while he may dure, & whanne he may nofertere suffice to here lecherye tanne he rendet hym and slet and etet hym. [John of Trevisa, translation of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]