Peter Alphonse

“ Than the sone: "Nothyng worse fallith or happenyth to a man than long to serve [the king] and no goode to geete nor purchace." [The] Fader: "Many of thynges now happenyth and cometh, and therfor the philosophre comaundith that noman overmoche tary with his kyng nor in his seruice." And another: "Who servith to the kyng without fortune so as I shal sey he leesith this world?" [3] And the sone: "O fader, whi foryetest thow to tel how a man ought to ete tofore a kyng?" [The fader] : "I am nat foryetful to tel, forwhi no difference is to ete before a kyng and elliswhere." ”

“ Thei forsoth as to a grete persone as he was, graunted anon to his peticioun. Forsoth whan they comen to Loth, eftsones and eftsones wern [thei] praied that thei shulden vndergo his Roof, for that he was no grete persone; as coarted or driven of soule thei wenten away." [11] A yong [man] oones asked an old man: "Whan I am boden to mete shal I ete moche?" [12] To whom thold man saide: "Moche! forwhi if he be thi friend that bad the, he shal joye and be glad of thi moche etyng; forsoth if he be an enemy he shal sorow and be sorowful." ”