Poem by Geoffrey Chaucer

Proverbs

Proverbe of Chaucer

What shul these clothes thus manyfold,
Lo this hote somers day?
After grete hete cometh cold;
No man caste his pilche away.

Of al this world the large compas
Yt wil not in myn armes tweyne;
Who so mochel wol embrace.

1. Chaucer's Words to His Scrivener
2. Merciles Beaute
3. To Life's Pilgrim
4. Against Women Unconstant
5. Chaucer's Prophecy

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