Thomas Clanvowe, Chaucerian and Other Pieces — The Cuckoo and the Nightingale (1897)
“ And Cukkow, so rede I thou do, y-wis.' 'Ye, than,' quod he, 'god let me never have blis If ever I to that counseyl obeye! 165 Nightingale, thou spekest wonder fayre, But, for al that, the sooth is the contrayre; For loving is, in yonge folk, but rage, And in olde folk hit is a greet dotage; Who most hit useth, most he shal apeyre. 170 For therof comth disese and hevinesse, Sorowe and care, and mony a greet seknesse, Dispyt, debat, [and] anger, and envye, Repreef and shame, untrust and jelousye, Pryde and mischeef, povértee, and woodnesse. 175 What! ”
