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Charles, Duke of Orléans Quotes

1394–1460 France

Charles of Orléans (24 November 1394 – 5 January 1465) was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans. He was also Duke of Valois, Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise and of Blois, Lord of Coucy, and the inheritor of Asti in Italy via his mother Valentina Visconti.

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Is she not lavishly endowed,
She whom I love so loyally?

The ware that pleaseth is as good as sold.

Though Fortune have fine eyes yet sees she nought.

A dangerous parsimony 'tis
To store up treasure of regrets.

Whether she dance, or sing, or smile,
Or whate'er else may do or be,
Give me a voice impartial, free
From favour or from flattery.

Sport that too long endures is nothing worth.
The pot goes once too often to the well.

The smylyng mouth and laughyng eyen gray

Wrapped in my thoughts, myself forgot,
I castles build in Spain and France.

'Tis not the robe that makes the monk.

For a cheat, a cheat and a half.

The smylyng mouth and laughyng eyen gray,
The brestis rounde and long smal armys twayne.

Ne'er fire without smoke was seen.

To wake the sleeping cat.

My ghostly fader, I me confesse,
First to God and then to you,
That at a window,—wot ye how?—
I stale a cosse of grete sweteness.

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