Item, one may know whether a coney be fatted, by feeling his sinew or — Le Ménagier de Paris

"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."