More from Geoffrey Chaucer

  1. Men sholde wedden after hir estat, For youthe and elde is often at debat.
  2. Forbede us thing, and that desiren we; Preesse on us faste, and thanne wol we flee. With daunger oute we al oure chaffare: Greet prees at m…
  3. This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro; Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.
  4. Allas! allas! that evere love was synne!
  5. What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.
  6. For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.
  7. Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessitee.
  8. Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.

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