And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.
Time and tide wait for no man.
One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.