Geoffrey Chaucer — "Mordre wol out, certeyn, it wol nat fayle."

"And thogh a widwe hadde but o sho, So plesaunt was hire song, she wolde have two."

"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."

"His palfrey was as broun as is a berye."

"This somnour bar to hym a stif burdoun; / Was nevere trompe of half so greet a soun."

"For, God it woot, men may wel often fynde A lordes sone do shame and vileynye; And he that wole han pris of his gentrye, For he was boren of a gentil hous, And hadde hise eldres noble and vertuous, An…"