"He was a verray parfit gentil knyght. But for to speken of his array, his hors were goode, but he was nat gay."

"He was an outridere, that loved venerie; / A manly man, to been an abbot able."

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

"For, God it woot, men may wel often fynde A lordes sone do shame and vileynye; And he that wole han pris of his gentrye, For he was boren of a gentil hous, And hadde hise eldres noble and vertuous, An…"

"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.'"