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Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810). Edgar Huntley; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker. 1857.

The Minor Poems

XX. Proverbs of Chaucer

I.
WHAT shul thise clothes many-fold,Lo! this hote somers day?—After greet heet cometh cold;No man caste his pilche away.
II.
Of al this world the wyde compasHit wol not in myn armes tweyne.—Who-so mochel wol embraceLitel therof he shal distreyne.


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