Maxioms by Geoffrey Chaucer
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.
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
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.
