Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.