Geoffrey Chaucer — "For every man that is in swich array, That he ne may nat speke, but he may pray."

"Now, good men, God forgive you your trespass, and keep you from the Sin of avarice! Mine holy pardons will save you, if you do give me gold or silver, or else brooches, spoons or rings"

"Ther was also a Nonne, a Prioresse, That of hir smylyng was ful symple and coy."

"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."

"She would weep if she saw a mouse Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bled. She had some small hounds that she fed With roasted meat, or milk and fine white bread."

"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th'assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge."