Min Be The Travaille, And Thin Be

He That Loveth God Will Do Diligence To Please God By His Works, And Abandon Himself, With All His Might, Well For To Do.

A Yokel Mind Loves Stories From Of Old, Being The Kind It Can Repeat And Hold.

Many A True Word Is Spoken In Jest

Til That The Brighte Sonne Loste His Hewe; For Th'orisonte Hath Reft The Sonne His Lyght; This Is As Muche To Seye As It Was Nyght!

But Al Be That He Was A Philosophre, Yet Hadde He But Litel Gold In Cofre.