Greihoundes he hadde as swift as foul of flight:

Of pricking[69] and of hunting for the hare

Was all his lust, for no cost wolde he spare.

I saw his sleves purfiled[70] at the hond

With gris,[71] and that the finest of the lond.

And for to fasten his hood under his chinne,

He hadde of gold ywrought a curious pinne;

A love-knotte in the greter end ther was.

His hed was balled,[72] and shone as any glas,

And eke his face, as it hadde ben anoint.