"She hadde passed many a straunge strem; / Hire hosen weren of fyn scarlet reed, / Ful streite yteyd, and shoes ful moyste and newe."

"And certeinly, as I have herd it tolde, / Ther was no wight that he ne ferde as a folde."

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

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

"And evere he rood the hyndreste of oure route."