Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales : The Franklin's Tale, as Malcolm Bell (1910) describes the incident from Chaucer ... "In this, Dorigen of Bretaigne, watching for her husband's longed for return from over seas on "Engelond" and seeing below her among the roaring breakers "the grisly rokkes blake" which make her tremble for his safety on his voyage, stretches her hands to Heaven from the window of the "castel fast by the sea" and appeals to God to "sink them into Hell."