"He wolde make a good confessorie, / If a man had a soule, and that he were / A good man, and coude wel here / Confessiouns, and have a good memorie."

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

"Ther is no difference, by my fey, Bitwixe a wys man and a fool, but this: The fool is glad, and the wys man is sorweful."

"He who is accustomed to this Sin of Gluttony may no Sin withstand. He must be in bondage to all vices, for it is in the Devil's hoard where he hides himself and takes his rest."

"He was a verray parfit gentil knyght. But for to speken of his array, his hors were goode, but he was nat gay."