Maxioms by Geoffrey Chaucer
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
Many a smale maketh a grate.
Many a smale maketh a grate.
But every thyng which schyneth as the gold,
Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.
But every thyng which schyneth as the gold,
Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.
That men by reason will it calle may
The daisie or elles the eye of day
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That men by reason will it calle may
The daisie or elles the eye of day
The emperice, and floure of floures alle.
But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve
He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.
But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve
He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.