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. To Rosemounde
3. Against Women Unconstant
4. Chaucer's Prophecy
5. Merciles Beaute

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