Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

Enough is as good as a feast.

We shall now seek that which we shall not find

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.