"A clerk, that was of Oxenford also, / Unto the world as in a cloystre he go."

"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."

"For, God it woot, men may wel often fynde A lordes sone do shame and vileynye; And he that wole han pris of his gentrye, For he was boren of a gentil hous, And hadde hise eldres noble and vertuous, An…"

"Experience, thogh noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynogh for me To speke of wo that is in mariage."

"Ther was also a Nonne, a Prioresse, That of hir smylyng was ful symple and coy."