Love is a grettere lawe, by my pan,
Then may be yeve to (of) eny erthly man?
(Knightes Tale, Aldine Series, vol. ii. p. 36, 37.)
But what is he þat may ȝeue a lawe to loueres. loue is a gretter lawe and a strengere to hym self þan any lawe þat men may ȝeuen.
(Chaucer’s Prose Translation, [p. 108].)
Quis legem det amantibus?
Major lex amor est sibi.
(Boeth., lib. iii. met. 12.)
II. A DRUNKEN MAN.
A dronke man wot wel he hath an hous,