"For goddes sake, taak al in pacience Our lordes hestes, and his ordinaunce."

"Therfore, for to speke of the horrible sweryng of the Sowdan, and of the horrible cursedness of his lyf, I holde it nat pertinent to my tale."

"As for to speke of innocence, I woot no man that may be exempt from it."

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

"The Miller's prominent feature was his nose with 'a wart on which there stood a tuft of hair Red as the bristles in an old sow's ear'."