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ȝe knowe ek that in fourme of speche is chaunge
With-inne a thousand ȝeer and wordes tho
That hadden pris now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thenketh hem and ȝet thei spake hem so
And spedde as wel in loue as men now do.

Via Adam Aleksic's "Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language", who offers this rough translation:

You know that the form of speech will change
Within a thousand years, and words
That were once apt, we now regard as quaint and strange
And yet they spoke them thus
And succeeded as well in love as men do now.