If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
Make a virtue of necessity.
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'