Le Ménagier de Paris

"Item, one may know whether a coney be fatted, by feeling his sinew or neck betwixt the two shoulders for there you may tell if there be much fat by the big sinew; and you can tell if he be tender by breaking one of his back legs."

"God commands us to go to church and rise early and the glutton saith, “I must sleep. I was drunk yesterday. The church is not a hare, it will very well wait for me”. When she has with some difficulty risen, know you what be her hours? Her matins are: “Ha! what shall we drink? Is there nought left over from last night?” Then says she her lauds, thus: “Ha! we drank good wine yestreen”. Afterwards she says her orisons, thus: “My head aches; I shall not be at ease until I have had a drink”."

"Seldom will you see ever so old a man who will not marry a young woman."