Quote#World
For a story which is nat pleynli told
Quote byJohn Lydgate · 1370–1450
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Fall of Princes, Prologue, line 92..
English (original)
For a story which is nat pleynli told, But constreynyd undir woordes fewe For lak off trouthe, wher thei be newe or olde, Men bi report kan nat the mater shewe.
— John Lydgate
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A prowde hert in a beggers brest, A fowle visage with gay temples of atyre, Horrible othes with an holy prist, A justice of juges to selle and lete to hyre, A knave to comande and have an empire, To yeve a jugement of that never was …
Woord is but wynd; leff woord and tak the dede.
All is not golde that outward shewith bright.
Who lesethe his fredam, in faith! he loseth all.
A wikked tonge wol alway deme amis.
For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.