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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Ac thorugh his science soothy was nevere no soule ysaved, Ne broght by hir bokes to blisse ne to joye.

william langland

— c.1378  Piers Plowman (B text),'Passus12', l.134-5. The'science'and 'books'are those of pagan scholars who developed natural science from empirical observation only.

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"De chiens, d'oyseaulx, d'armes, d'amous,"Chascun le dit a la vollee,"Pour une joye cent doulours."

françois villon

— "In riding to the hounds, in falconry,In love or war," as anyone will tell you,"For one brief joy a hundred woes."
— Line 622.

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The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love.

Geoffrey Chaucer

— Parlement of Foules, l. 1-4.
Cf. Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1:1

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