"He wolde suffer for a quart of wyn / A good felawe to have his concubyn / A twelf-month, and excuse hym atte fulle."

"But al be that I kan nat telle aright The murthe of mariage, but I kan telle the wo."

"Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their men to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed."

"A gentil Maunciple was ther of a temple, Of which achatours myghte take exemple For to be wise in byynge of vitaille."

"And yet he was but of litel stature; But al he hadde, it was as he were wood."