"He was a Reve, a sly and a trechour, And by his maister knew he every flour."

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

"Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde / With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed."

"He hadde a forhead reed as any glede, / With eyen narwe, and hoote as any goot."

"For if a man be gracious and kynde, He is a verray gentilman, and no other."