Middle English isn't too hard to get the hang of, as opposed to Old English (Anglo-Saxon), which is well-nigh unreadable to us. Editions of Chaucer which use ME will usually have notes explaining the difficult words and phrases.

I knew what a widow's peak was but had no idea that it foretold an early widowhood. I guess that should make me relieved that I only have a cowlick.

I always thought it was related to music: [Chuck] Brown didn’t just invent go-go, says Johnson, he reinvented what dance bands do. “It’s non-stop. We go from one song to the next to the next – there’s no break,” he says. That’s where the name go-go derives – it’s music with a beat that just goes and goes. Percussive solos are its signature – conga drums, cowbells, timbales, anything with a beat. These transitions between songs turn into crescendos that keep the dance floor buzzing. “That was Brown’s genius,” says Johnson. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/14/washington-dc-go-go-music-hits-back-gentrification-sould-of-a-city

Same idea but wiki says the practice came from Spain in the early 16th century Red tape