"And if that he forbede it, wolde he say, / 'A man may do no synne, but if he may / Nat touche a womman, for al his lyf.'"

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

"As for to speke of innocence, I woot no man that may be exempt from it."

"And al be that he was a worthy man, He loved gold in special."

"Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee As wel over hir housbond as hir love, And for to been in maistrie hym above."