Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.

Many a true word is spoken in jest

The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.