| Quote | Name | Physical Description |
| A lovere and a lusty bachelor, With lokkes crulle as they were laid in presse. | |
| He hadde maad ful many a mariage Of younge women at his owne cost… | |
| Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas; And yit he seemed bisier than he was. | |
| But, for to speken of hir conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous She wolde weppe if that she saw a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bleede. | |
| Wel coude he stelen corn and tollen thries And yit he hadde a thombe of gold, pardee | |
| Forsoothe he was a worthy man withalle; But, sooth to sayn, I not how men him calle. | |
| His table dormant in his halle always Stood redy covered all the longe day. | |
| Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace The wisdom of an heep of lerned men? | |
| If that he faught and had the hyer hand, By water he sente hem hoom to every land | |
| And gladly would he lerne, and gladly teche | |
| | Quote | Name | Physical Description |
| They were adred of him as of the death | |
| She coude muchel of wandring by the way Gat-toothed was she, smoothly for to saye. | |
| A…was ther with a forked beerd, In motelee, and hye on hors he sat | |
| An outridere that loved venerye, A manly man, to been an abbot able. | |
| A daggere hanging on a laas hadde he Aboute his nekke, under his arm adown. | |
| And though that he were worthy, he was wis, And of his port as meeke as is a maide. | |
| He hadde a crois of laton, full of stones, And in a glas he hadde pigges bones… | |
| He kepte that he wan in pestilence. For gold in physic is a cordial, Therefore he love gold in special. | |
| …if gold ruste, what shal iren do? | |
| A better felawe sholde men nought finde: He wolde suffer, for a quart of win, A good felawe to have his concubine A twelfmonth and excusen him at the full. | |
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