His spirit changed house, and vanished there, Where I have not been, so cannot say where. - Geoffrey Chaucer

Кому веселость может повредить?
Коль с рожей постной едет путник бедный,
Вот это плохо, это даже вредно.

Truly she was of elegant deportment, and very pleasing and amiable in bearing. She took pains to counterfeit the manners of the court and to be dignified in behavior and to be held worthy of reverence.

He hath considered shortly, in a clause
The trespas of hem bothe, and eek the cause,
And althogh that his ire hir gilt accused,
Yet in his resoun he hem bothe excused,
As thus: he thoghte wel that every man
Wol helpe himself in love if that he kan,
And eek delivere himself out of prisoun;