"He knew the cause of every maladye, / Were it of hoot, or coold, or moyste, or drye, / And where engendred, and of what humour."

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

"The wise man, though he be old and hoor, Yet wil he lerne, and evermore."

"And everich of us to lighten his herte, And of his tale anothere for to telle."

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