"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."

"I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare."

"He coude songes make and wel endite, Juste and eek daunce, and wel purtreye and write."

"A good wyf was ther, of biside Bathe, But she was somdel deef, and that was scathe."

"And yet he was a trewe persoun and a good, / And hated swearing, and was not so wood."