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• And of his port as meke as is a mayde.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 69...
• Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 493...
• For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.
  But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre....
• This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,-- That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 498...
• Whanne that April with his shoures sote The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 1...
• But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taugh
  but first he folwed it himselve....
• A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 287...
• And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 310...
• And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 565...