In Flaundres whilom was a compaignye
Of yonge folk that haunteden folye,
As riot, hasard, stywes, and tavernes,
Where as with harpes, lutes, and gyternes,
They daunce and playen at dees bothe day and nyght,
And eten also and drynken over hir myght....

Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer 
(c. 1400)