Maxioms by Geoffrey Chaucer
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
[Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, read more
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
[Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle.]
Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.
Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.
One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
Rose were sette of swete savour,
With many roses that thei bere.
Rose were sette of swete savour,
With many roses that thei bere.
So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.
So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.
