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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
Astrologer
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London
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Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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