How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.