"If that thise men that lovers hem pretende, To women weren feythfull good and trewe, And dreden hem to deceyven or of…"

"For the more paart, youthe is rebel, Un-to reson & hatith her doctryne."

"O yowthe allas why wilt thow nat enclyne, And un-to reuled reform bowe thee? Syn resoun is the verray streighte lyne …"

"Many a servant un-to his lord seith, "Þat al the world spekith of him honour," Whan the contrarie of þat is sooth, in…"

"O maister deere and Fadir reverent, Mi maister Chaucer, flour of eloquence, Mirour of fructuous entendement, O, unive…"

"With bookës of his ornat endytyng, That is to al þis land enlumynyng."

"And fadir Chaucer fayn wolde han me taght; But I was dul and lernèd lite or naght. Allas! my worthi maister honorable…"

"Who was hiër in philosophie To Aristotle, in our tonge, but thow?"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Auribus immensis quondam donatus asellus institit ut caudam posset habere parem. cauda suo capiti quia se conferre ne…"