- For God's love, take things patiently, have sense,
- Think! We are prisoners and shall always be.
- Fortune has given us this adversity,
- Some wicked planetary dispensation,
- Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation
- Has given us this, and Heaven,
- though we had sworn
- The contrary, so stood when we were born.
- We must endure it, that's the long and short.
Geoffrey Chaucer