John Lydgate,
Chaucerian and Other Pieces — Ballad of Good Counsel
(1897)
“ Than sith it is, that no man may eschewe 120 The swerde of tonge, but it wol kerve and byte, Ful hard it is, a man for to remewe Out of hir daunger, so they hem delyte To hindre or slaundre, and also to bakbyte ”
John Lydgate,
Chaucerian and Other Pieces — Ballad of Good Counsel
(1897)
“ Honest array, men deme, †is pompe and pryde, And who goth poore, men calle him a wastour; And who goth [mene] , men marke him on every syde, And saye that he is a spye or a gylour; Who wasteth, men seyn [that] he hath tresour ”
John Lydgate,
Chaucerian and Other Pieces — Ballad of Good Counsel
(1897)
“ Yet let hem spekë—and trust right wel this, A wikked tonge wol alway deme amis. Who that is holy by perfeccioun, Men, of malyce, wol calle him ipocryte; 65 And who is mery, of clene entencioun, Men say, in ryot he doth him delyte; Som mourne in blak; som laughe in clothes whyte ”
