"For trewely, I dar wel seye, to make it short, He was a verray parfit gentil knyght."

"He knew the cause of every maladye, / Were it of hoot, or coold, or moyste, or drye, / And where engendred, and of what humour."

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

"His heed was balded that shoon as any glas, And eek his face, as he hadde been enoynt."

"For pitee renneth soone in gentil herte."