Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
Time and tide wait for no man.
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.