"For love is blynd alday, and may nat see."

"What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave, Allone, withouten any compaignye."

"Of remedies of love he knew al chaunce, / And everich of hem knew he bet than his page."

"For though the grettest clerkes han it sworen, That ther is no felicitee in mariage, Ne no felicitee but in his lyf, That lyveth out of swich servage."

"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."