"Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee As wel over hir housbond as hir love, And for to been in maistrie hym above."

"He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith that hunters ben nat hooly men."

"He knew the tavernes wel in every toun / And every hostiler and tappestere / Bet than a lazar or a beggestere."

"He knew the cause of every maladye, / Were it of hoot, or coold, or moyste, or drye, / And where engendred, and of what humour."

"Ful many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable, / And whan he rood, men myghte his brydel heere / Gynglen in a whistlynge wynd as cleere."