Alas the day that gave me birth! Worse than my prison is the endless earth,now I am doomed eternally to dwell,not in purgatory, but in hell
Haz bien a quien te perjudica y bendice a quien te maldice.
But we'll try anything once hot or cold; A man must be a young food, or an old
Earn what you can since everything's for sale
By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.
But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But...
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Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!Men may die of imaginacioun,So depe may impressioun be take.
For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust,
Upon his arm he bare a gay bracer*, *small shield And by his side a sword and a buckler, And on that other side a gay daggere, Harnessed well, and sharp as point of spear:
There in the sun; and Chanticleer so free Sang merrier than a mermaid in the sea (For Physiologus says certainly That they do sing, both well and merrily).
We know little of the things for which we pray
Be nat wrooth, my lord, though that I pleye. Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd seye!
Love is blind.
Yet do not miss the moral, my good men.For Saint Paul says that all that’s written wellIs written down some useful truth to tell.Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
First he wrought and afterwards he taught.
¡Con qué rapidez invade la piedad los corazones nobles!
For naturally a beast desires to flee From any enemy that he may see, Though never yet he's clapped on such his eye.
Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is.
No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.