Geoffrey Chaucer

“ Come in this world; ne Nembrot, desirous
To reynen, had nat maad his toures hye. 60
Allas, allas! now may men wepe and crye!
For in our dayes nis but covetyse
[And] doublenesse, and tresoun and envye,
Poysoun, manslauhtre, and mordre in sondry wyse. 64
⁠Finit Etas prima.⁠Chaucers. ”

“ Yit nas the ground nat wounded with the plough,
But corn up-sprong, unsowe of mannes hond, 10
The which they gniden, and eete nat half y-nough
No man yit knew the forwes of his lond;
No man the fyr out of the flint yit fond ”