“It is ful fair a man to bere him evene,/For alday meeteth men at unset stevene.”

“Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe.”

“Be nat wrooth, my lord, though that I pleye. Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd seye!”

“No empty handed man can lure a bird”

“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.”

“For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a common man should rust" -The Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales-”

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