"...and he would help the poor for the love of Christ and never take a penny...

He paid in tithes in full when they were due

On what he owned, and on his earnings too."

"Bold in his speech, yet wise and full of tact, There was no manly attribute he lacked.

What's more,he was a merry-hearted man."

"Yet he was rather close as to expenses

and kept the gold he won in pestilences"

"And he was under contract to present

The accounts, right from his master's earliest years.

No one ever caught him in arrears."

A warngler and buffoon, he had a store

Of tavern stories,filthy in the main.

He was a master-hand at stealing grain."

"Garlic he loves, and onions too, and leeks.

And drinking strong wine til he was hazy,

Then he would shout and jabber as if crazy,

and wouldnt speak a word except in latin"

"As for his skill in reckoning in tides,

Currents and many another risk besides.

Moons,harbours,pilots,he had such dispatch

That from Hull to carthage none was his match"

"His house was never short of bake-meat pies,

of fish and flesh, and these in such supplies,

It positively snowed with meat and drink."

"..his horse was thinner than a rake

And he was not too fat, I undertake;

But had a hollow look, a sober stare;

the thread upon his overcoat was bare."

"He knew of every judgement,case and crime

Recorded since King William's time"

He knew the taverns well in every town

And every inkeeper and barmaid too

Better than lepers, beggers, and that crew

..so he had set

his wits to work, none knew he was in debt,

he was so stately in negotiation,

loan,bargain,and commericial obligation

"he stayed at home and watched over his fold

so that no wolf shou'ld make the sheep miscarry

he was a shepherd and no mercenary"

in company she liked to laugh and chat

and knew he remedies of love's mischances,

an art in which she knew the oldest dances

...he was never rash

whetherhe bought on credit or paid cash,

he used to watch the market most precisely

and got in first, and so he did quite nicely

but what a pity-so it seemed to me,

hat he should have an ulcer on his knee

as for blancmange, he made it with the best"

and in his hand he bore a mghtly bow,

his head was like a nut, his face was brown

he knew the whole of woodcraft up and down

".. a most distiguished man,

who from the day on which he first began

to ride abroad had followed chivalry."

"her forehead,certainly, was fair of spead,

almost a span across the brow, i own;

she was by no means undergrown"

"he liked a fat swan best, and roasted whole,

his palfrey was as brown as is a berry"

"singing he was, or flutting all the day;

he was as fresh as is the month of may"

he'd sewed a holy relic in his cap;

his walle lay before him on his lap.

brimful of pardons come from Rome all hot.

He had the same small voice as a goat has got