For of fortunes sharpe adversite, The worst kind of infortune is this,— A man that hath been in prosperite, And it remember whan it passed is.
For of fortunes sharpe adversite, The worst kind of infortune is this,— A man that hath been in prosperite, And it remember whan it passed is.
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Troilus and Creseide. Book iii. Line 1625.
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 1364 AD · medieval
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