“And once he had got really drunk on wine,Then he would speak no language but Latin.”

“By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.”

“But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,He taught and first he followed it himself.”

“Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe.”

“And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?”

“If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me”

“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”