"His curly hair looked as if they were pressed in a machine and his clothes were embellished with red and white, as if it were a meadow full of fresh flowers."

"His palfrey was as broun as is a berye."

"What sholde I speke of the synne of glotonye, that is so greet a synne?"

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

"Now, good men, God forgive you your trespass, and keep you from the Sin of avarice! Mine holy pardons will save you, if you do give me gold or silver, or else brooches, spoons or rings"