Geoffrey Chaucer — "He knew hir conseil, and hir pryvetee, And for to been a maister of his craft, F…"

"But al be that he was a philosophre, / Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre."

"Tell me also to what purpose or end the genitals have been made?"

"Out of the olde feldes, as men seyth, Cometh al this newe corn from yeer to yeer; And out of olde bokes, in good feyth, Cometh al this newe science that men lere."

"And if he foond owher a good felawe, / He wolde techen hym to have noon awe / In swich caas of the ercedekenes curs, / But if a man's purs were in his ers."

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