“There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discr…” — Marie de France

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

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.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.