For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kinde of infortune is this, A man to have ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, when it passed is.
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Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
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Love is blind.
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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
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And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.
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