And high above, depicted in a tower,Sat Conquest, robed in majesty and power,Under a sword that swung above his head,Sharp-edged and hanging by a subtle thread.
Haz bien a quien te perjudica y bendice a quien te maldice.
We’re like two dogs in battle on their own;They fought all day but neither got the bone,There came a kite above them, nothing loth,
Time and tide wait for no man.
Love is blind.
¡Con qué rapidez invade la piedad los corazones nobles!
We know little of the things for which we pray
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
First he wrought and afterwards he taught.
But we'll try anything once hot or cold; A man must be a young food, or an old
Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!Men may die of imaginacioun,So depe may impressioun be take.
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.
Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.
La avaricia es la causa de todos los vicios.
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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...
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).
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.