The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

“Ho!” quoth the Knight, “good sir, no more of this; That ye have said is right enough, y-wis, 4235 And muchë more; for little heaviness Is right enough to muchë folk, I guess. I say for me, it is a great disease, 4236 Where as men have been in great wealth and ease, To hearen of their sudden fall, alas! And the contráry is joy and great solas, 4237 As when a man hath been in poor estate, And climbeth up, and waxeth fortunate, And there abideth in prosperity; Such thing is gladsome, as it thinketh me, And of such thing were goodly for to tell.”