Maxioms by Geoffrey Chaucer
The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.
The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.
Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.
Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.
It is not good a sleping hound to wake.
It is not good a sleping hound to wake.
For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
The worste kynde of infortune is this,
A man to hav bent read more
For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
The worste kynde of infortune is this,
A man to hav bent in prosperite,
And it remembren whan it passed is.