How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach
Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.
In the stars is written the death of every man.