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  1. 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…
  2. For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.
  3. The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
  4. Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
  5. Men sholde wedden after hir estat, For youthe and elde is often at debat.
  6. Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon That shal ete with a feend.
  7. 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.
  8. Love is a thyng as any spirit free. Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee, And nat to been constreyned as a thral; And so doon men, if I sooth…

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