Cil due vassals, ki tant cunquistrent, Tant orent terres, è… - Wace

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Cil due vassals, ki tant cunquistrent,
Tant orent terres, è tant pristrent;
Emprès la mort, de lor enor,
N'ont cescuns fors sa lunguor.

Wace

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(c. 1110 – after 1174), sometimes referred to as Robert Wace, was a Medieval Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the Roman de Rou that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his career as Canon of Bayeux.

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Wit is more than strength! Muscle is good, but craft is better. Skill devises means when strength fails. Cunning and engines bring many matters to a good end, that strength would not venture even to begin.

Por remembrer des ancessours
Li fez è li diz è li mours,
Deit l'en li livres è li gestes
E li estoires lire as festes.

Tote rien se torne en déclin,
Tot chiet, tot meurt, tot vait à fin:
Hom muert, fer use, fust porrist,
Tur font, mur chiet, rose flaistrist,
Cheval trebusche, drap viésist:
Tot ovre fet od mainz périst.

Cil due vassals, ki tant cunquistrent, Tant orent terres, è tant pristrent; Emprès la mort, de lor enor, N'ont cescuns fors sa lunguor. - Wace

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