Thou doost noght elles but despendest tyme. Sire, at o word, thou shalt no lenger ryme. Modern English: You're doing nothing else but wasting time. Sir, in a word, you shall no longer rhyme.

Thou doost noght elles but despendest tyme.
Sire, at o word, thou shalt no lenger ryme.
Modern English:
You’re doing nothing else but wasting time.
Sir, in a word, you shall no longer rhyme.

– Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales, The Tale of Sir Thopas. The Host calls on Chaucer the Pilgrim to tell something in prose, or at least in which there is some mirth or doctrine.

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