Geoffrey Chaucer — "That he is gentil that dooth gentil dedis."

"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."

"The smalest worm that crepeth by the weye, Is in his kynde as parfit as the grete."

"For in this world, certeyn, no wight there is / That he ne dooth or seith somtyme amis."

"For in his male he hadde a pilwe-beer, / Which that he seyde was Oure Lady veyl."

"For she was so charitable and so pitous She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde. Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde With rosted flessh, or milk an…"