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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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