“For of fortunes sharp adversitee
The worst kynde of infortune is this,
A man to han ben in prosperitee,
And it remembren, whan it passed is.”

—  Geoffrey Chaucer, book Troilus and Criseyde

Book 3, line 1625-1628
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

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