MOTTOE FOR YE NEWE YEARE
Reading edition
Modernized by A. Seymour H.B.C. Post, D-14
There arre noe Byrdes In Nexte Yeare's Neste. In Nexte Yeare's Creame There arre no Flyes. Noe Vaine Regrettes Disturb my Breaste For Aught yt in Ye Futurre lyes Ande Laste Yeare's Flyes Ande Laste Yeare's Byrdes Arre paste ye reache Of Tearres ande Wordes.
? ? ? ? —Chaucer.