Maxioms by Geoffrey Chaucer
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
It is not good a sleping hound to wake.
It is not good a sleping hound to wake.
He koude songes make and well endite.
He koude songes make and well endite.
The false lapwynge, full of trecherye.
The false lapwynge, full of trecherye.
For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
The worste kynde of infortune is this,
A man to hav bent read more
For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
The worste kynde of infortune is this,
A man to hav bent in prosperite,
And it remembren whan it passed is.
