Geoffrey Chaucer

It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.

It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.

This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,--
That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.

This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,--
That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.

Experience, though non auctoritee
Were in this world, is right ynough to me
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Experience, though non auctoritee
Were in this world, is right ynough to me
To speke of wo that is in mariage. . . .

In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde
And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.

In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde
And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.

That of all the floures in the mede,
Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,
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That of all the floures in the mede,
Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,
Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.