If gold ruste, what shal iren do?
Canterbury Tales
From The Parson's Tale, a proverb applied to the corruption of the clergy, serving as a sharp and unfiltered critique of moral decay among leaders.
c. 1387-1400
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"He was an outridere, that loved venerie; / A manly man, to been an abbot able."
Strange & Unusual"What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave, Allone, withouten any compaignye."
Strange & Unusual"If gold rusts, what then can iron do?"
Shocking"For hooly chirche's right is to be fed, / Or elles wolde he have his breed of whete, / And of the flour of his owene seed, / And of his corn a very large meel."
Strange & Unusual"The smalest worm that crepeth by the weye, Is in his kynde as parfit as the grete."
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