What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

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

. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

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.

So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.