"And yet he was a trewe persoun and a good, / And hated swearing, and was not so wood."

"Thus may ye see that every creature, Evere in his kynde, desireth to confourme Him to the kynde of his creatoure."

"And everich was worth to been an alderman, / For they hadde ynough of catel and of rente."

"If gold rusts, what then can iron do?"

"A man may do no synne but if he wole."