The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer Edited, from numerous manuscripts by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat |
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XX. PROVERBS.
Proverbe of Chaucer.
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What shul thise clothes many-fold,Lo! this hote somers day?—
After greet heet cometh cold;
No man caste his pilche away.
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Of al this world the wyde compasHit wol not in myn armes tweyne.—
Who-so mochel wol embrace
Litel therof he shal distreyne.
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