"And yet he was to hym a greet encressour. / Noon auditour koude on his word so wel / Have caught hym in his sleighte, ne in his trayne."

"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.'"

"He had maad ful many a mariage Of yonge wommen at his owne cost."

"Therfore, for to speke of the horrible sweryng of the Sowdan, and of the horrible cursedness of his lyf, I holde it nat pertinent to my tale."

"He was a Reve, and a sclendre colerik man. His berd was shave as ny as ever he kan."