"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…"

"And if he foond owher a good felawe, / He wolde techen hym to have noon awe / In swich caas of the ercedekenes curs, / But if a man's purs were in his ers."

"And in a word, she was a right good creature."

"For he was Epicurus owene sone."

"For if a man be trewe in his entent, He may nat faille of his felicitee."