“Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto III, line 1
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde,
Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, book The Canterbury Tales
The Clerk's Tale, l. 62-63
The Canterbury Tales
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