"It came at last to my Lord him self, who macking it veray nyce for a lytill space, gave in the end ane plain confessioun, and said, 'I am the yongest man, and yitt have I haid the round desone; and sevin of thame ar menis wyffis.'"
"It is saied that they did not theis thinges/and therfor are they taken for true and veray worshippers of Godd."
"Few of them, however, can hope to have their deeds commemorated by a "veray parfit, gentle knight" -- of the quill, not of the sword, albeit the letters which he writes after his name would once have indicated the possession of military rank and distinction."