Loke Who That Is Most Vertuous Alway, Prive And Apert, And Most Entendeth Ay To Do The Gentil Dedes That He Can, And Take Him For The Gretest Gentilman.

That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Wif of Bathes Tale, Line 6752...
And for to see, and eek for to be seie.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Wif of Bathes Prologue, Line 6134...
The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Reves Tale, Line 4051...
I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Wif of Bathes Prologue, Line 6154...
He helde about him alway, out of drede, A world of folke.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Troilus and Creseide, Book iii, Line 1721...
For May wol have no slogardie a-night. The seson priketh every gentil herte, And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Knightes Tale, Line 1044...
Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Monkes Tale, Line 1449...
He was a veray parfit gentil knight.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 72...
In his owen grese I made him frie. -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Reves Tale, Line 6069