Ek Gret Effect Men Write

And Gladly Would He Learn, And Gladly Teach

There Was The Murdered Corpse, In Covert Laid, And Violent Death In Thousand Shapes Displayed; The City To The Soldier's Rage Resigned; Successless Wars, And Poverty Behind; Ships Burnt In Fight, Or Forced On Rocky Shores, And The Rash Hunter Strangled By The Boars; The Newborn Babe By Nurses Overlaid; And The Cook Caught Within The Raging Fire He Made.

Mercy Surpasses Justice.

The Latter End Of Joy Is Woe.

Filth And Old Age, I'm Sure You Will Agree, Are Powerful Wardens Upon Chastity.