No empty handed man can lure a bird
No empty handed man can lure a bird
By nature, men love newfangledness.
By God, if women had but written stories, As have these clerks within their oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the race of Adam could redress.
Time and tide wait for no man.
No-wher so bisy a man as he ther nas And yet he semed bisier than he was.
The gretteste clerkes been noght the wysest men.
Men love . . . newfangledness.
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories