Shorter Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter William Skeat
Proverbs
Proverbe of Chaucer.
I.
What shul thise clothes many-fold, Lo! this hote somers day?— After greet heet cometh cold; No man caste his pilche away.
II.
Of al this world the wyde compas Hit wol not in myn armes tweyne.— Who-so mochel wol embrace Litel therof he shal distreyne.