"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
"His spirit chaunged house and wente ther,As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher."
"... murder wol out"
"people have managed to marry without arithmetic"
"you will not be master of my body & my property"
"we know little of the things for which we pray"
"Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!Men may die of imaginacioun,So depe may impressioun be take."
"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."
"Then the Miller fell off his horse."
"Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is."