Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.
Modern English:
The time always flees; it will wait for no man.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk’s Tale. Here Walter’s nobles are urging him to take wife, as time waits for no man.
Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.
Modern English:
The time always flees; it will wait for no man.
– Geoffrey Chaucer