No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.
La honradez y la buena vida siempre andan disociados, cuando se trata de gente pobre.
This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
If gold rust, what shall iron do? For if a Priest, upon whom we trust, be foul, no wonder a layman may yield to lust.
Es indispensable que la palabra corresponda a la acción.
Throgh me men gon into that blysful placeOf hertes hele and dedly woundes cure;Thorgh me men gon unto the welle of grace,There grene and lusty May shal evere endure.This is the wey to al good aventure...
And Christ’s law and His Apostles twelve he taught, but first he followed it himself.
—La compasión surge rápidamente de los nobles corazones que sienten los agudos aguijonazos que sufren otros como en su propia carne;
Nadie debe echar sobre sus espaldas fardo que no pueda llevar.
La virtud se aloja frecuentemente en los de condición humilde,
Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Wherever there is drunkenness about No secret can be hidden, make no doubt.
When that Aprille with his shoures sote.The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be.
Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite;Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage;But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.
Los amigos que un hombre hace en la prosperidad creo que le convertirán en enemigos en la adversidad,
Have do, qoud she, come of, cand speed the fase, Lest that oure neighbores thee espie.This Absolon gan wype his mouth ful drie.Derk was the nyght as pich, or as the cole,And athe wydnow out she putte...
By Pluto sent at the request of Saturn. Arcita’s horse in terror danced a pattern And leapt aside and foundered as he leapt, And ere he was aware Arcite was swept Out of the saddle and pitched upon hi...
And as for me, though that I konne but lyte,On bokes for to rede I me delyte,And to hem yive I feyth and ful credence,And in myn herte have hem in reverenceSo hertely, that ther is game noonThat fro m...
La virtud que corona la perfección es la paciencia.