"Of remedies of love he knew al chaunce, / And everich of hem knew he bet than his page."

"For though the lyon be a beest, He hath a herte of gold, and that is al."

"for well he knew a woman has no beard; hed felt a thing all rough and longish-haired."

"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."

"He was a maister-hand at stelen corn, And that he gat, he wolde it wel defende."