"The wise man, though he be old and hoor, Yet wil he lerne, and evermore."

"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."

"Upon the cop right of his nose he hade A werte, and theron stood a tuft of heres rede, As bristles of a sowes eerys olde."

"But al be that I kan nat telle aright The murthe of mariage, but I kan telle the wo."