"The smalest worm that crepeth by the weye, Is in his kynde as parfit as the grete."

"A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives."

"And yet he was but of litel stature."

"He was an outridere, that loved venerie; / A manly man, to been an abbot able."

"His nekke whit was as the flour-de-lys, Thereto strong he was as a champioun."