Chaucer Texts

eChaucer ¤ Chaucer in the Twenty-First Century

Proverbs
Proverbs of Chaucer
What shul these clothes thus manyfold,
Lo this hote somers day?
After grete hete cometh cold;
No man caste his pilche away.
5Of al this world the large compas
Yt wil not in myn armes tweyne;
Who so mochel wol embrace,
Litel therof he shal distreyne.